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The Problem
Every day I’m running, running, I’m running, Outrunning the moment when the world catches up To the truth of my accomplishments To the pain of my lucky endeavors To the realization that I have No Idea What I am doing … Continue reading
Celebrity
Your favorite politician does not Love you Or know your name or Live a life anything like your own Celebrities are just Like you And I Except Not That boy in the Boy band He’s doing a job And we … Continue reading
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Sonnet 2: To Darkness, but Falling Apart
The child lies restless watching dimming shadows The dance of sometimes headlit windows circling A trick of cones or psyche ever dark’ning At the edges of his vision shrinking The husband lies with eyes wide open staring A thousand fears … Continue reading
Sonnet 1: Things Known, and Unknowable
My motive winds are heated by a fire Of captive passions that, from breeze, to squall, To hurricane, all drive with one desire: To once again entice, impress, enthrall— A woman. Though I’ve set her heart afire Enough to win … Continue reading
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Tagged Italian sonnet, loneliness, love, marriage, motive, mystery, poem, sonnet, The Buried Life, The Dead, women
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