Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Tragicomic Poetic Victims

All our calling 
Wanted from us was 
To write as if 
 
Our lives depended 
On it and to never go 
Back on our word— 
 
“Get a life,” it said, 
And we believed it, willing 
Dead-pan supplicants 
 
Writing sad, 
True-life confessions 
To no end. 
 
 

 

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