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Poem 5 from my chapbook "As Glamorous as a Kidney"

By TestPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Top Story - April 2024

I have no real confidence.

I watch “success” after “success”

After “success” and finally feel

As if there is hope.

Hope to succeed again.

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Then there is failure.

“Failure” to say “success” can

Come through again.

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Then there is the “failure”

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“Failure”

“Failure”

Failure

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Failure.

…..

The floor is cold.

Everything is fucked up.

Nothing is going to be right.

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Yet, somehow the empty body is

Arise knowing perfection is only

A dream and all is lost.

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When a tiny thing, whatever it may

Be restores the will to build.

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It could be the image of a fool.

It could be a flower.

It could be waking up and finding

A way to laugh sincerely.

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It could also be itself showing

Through thyself.

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Forget these words.

Remember

“The fool”

“Remember the flower who grew”

“Remember what made you laugh”

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“Remember what made you You

Whether you failed or succeeded”

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That is all.

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Filter to April 1st, 2017

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Test

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