beggar's autumn

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    smoke fills the autumn night
    and my nostrils
    a cobweb thread
    lands on my face
    my hand travels slowly up

    i beg a bit in the afternoons
    and reciprocate
    their lack of sympathy

    the nights are mine
    until
    weeks before Xmas
    they set up
    those dead color lights

    these people have no mercy

 

 
wh
2006-10-20

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tazz317tazz317almost 12 years ago
WHERE MERCY IS NEEDED

the holidays emit despair. TK U MLJ LV NV

duddle146duddle146about 17 years ago
The real deal.

A begger relates matter of factly the trials of trying to survive in an uncaring world.

LeBrozLeBrozover 17 years ago
~~

And poetry can be found in anything, all you need do is look.

KOLKOREKOLKOREover 17 years ago
Bravo!

That was great! I get increasingly irritated with poets

who turn their backs to every thing except "beauty" and "love", as if they don't have windows in their homes. There come your poem which knows that this distinction is arbitrary. Beauty coulld be found in the midst of every situation, and real life can't be ignored for poetry to be real!

MyNecroticSnailMyNecroticSnailover 17 years ago
Drivel!

just kidding...I do like it...especially these lines:

i beg a bit in the afternoons

and reciprocate

their lack of sympathy

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