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Two Poems; Just// Hamartia

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By ABPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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Just a little to the left, just a little to the backward

Just a little to the up-side-down

Just a few more nibbles; just a few more wounds; just a little less

Sound

Just a break in the silence just a deafening second

How is love so blind? How is love so bound?

Just a death of an infant just a hug from a mother just

A world

Revolving

round

Hamartia

Early bird,

Her man’s shadow

Nuisance tugging on a corduroy trouser leg trim

Patience is her virtue, empathy her nature

Guzzling plug holes and sizzling bacon, no ones home

Wait for the smell of smoke and again for the awful smell of

Gas

Why are there crumbs

Why is there mess

Why is there no one to waitress

Bellows

Leftovers from fetuses and black black coffee

Rigid frame and hollowed eyes

Lipped, cracked, used

There is no rest for the wicked; there is no solace for the abused

sad poetry
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