Absentia

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Old woman, damn it

  December 2023     4 months ago

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Atlantic City

Atlantic City

Over formica he said no,
no I can't, but thank you, and
what a nice offer.

Nice. I thought about the dark bus home the
overhead spotlights, the awful carpet the
chest charring embarassment
and the...

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I love the way as I read it I started to live on the borderline between human and animal. What a sweet relief it was to be for a moment or two a woodland animal. The " I wlspebd my time. . . " paragraph was to me a great example of how words can create metamorphosis. I really don't generally like rhymed poems but I almost didn't notice it here. It did the work of moving the orose along with satisfying stops for the rhyme. That doesn't explain well what I mean. I don't have the skill here 

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