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her carriage awaits

Feb 23rd, 2017
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  1. Her carriage
  2.  
  3. Awaits,
  4.  
  5. By fresh-hammer'd gates...
  6.  
  7. The boon
  8.  
  9. To mediocrity's labours:
  10.  
  11. That I might know
  12.  
  13. Her truest soul-
  14.  
  15. For only I to savour.
  16.  
  17. So I split the oak,
  18.  
  19. And I saw'd the ash,
  20.  
  21. For pittance in paltry cash,
  22.  
  23. Till all I'd built
  24.  
  25. Was an effigy,
  26.  
  27. To parent
  28.  
  29. A dirty pile of ash.
  30.  
  31.  
  32.  
  33. I cast all into the cinders,
  34.  
  35. Sprouted wispy whiskers,
  36.  
  37. Turned my back against the breeze,
  38.  
  39. To drink
  40.  
  41. A bitter antidote-
  42.  
  43. The quelling of my unease.
  44.  
  45. Yet, the truth
  46.  
  47. Was never
  48.  
  49. So well-hid,
  50.  
  51. That I could not dip out and in
  52.  
  53. Upon a whim,
  54.  
  55. In daydreams,
  56.  
  57. The other life, unlived.
  58.  
  59.  
  60.  
  61. Her carriage awaits,
  62.  
  63. 'Neath a veil of decay,
  64.  
  65. Upon cinder blocks
  66.  
  67. In my front yard,
  68.  
  69. To be passed
  70.  
  71. By the blinding headlights
  72.  
  73. Of a billion
  74.  
  75. Speeding cars.
  76.  
  77. That I could think
  78.  
  79. My heart, my art
  80.  
  81. So singular
  82.  
  83. And apart,
  84.  
  85. But, rather,
  86.  
  87. You could take your pick:
  88.  
  89. Any one of a billion
  90.  
  91. Fading stars.
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