For Nette Onclaud's Oxymoron Poetry Contest/ Sept. 2, 2025
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Around him is a multitude of people who appear to be with partners, friends or family. Excited smiles display their mood. He drifts along, solitary. Among that throng, a ghost is he whose dead wife’s face he can’t unsee. Forlornness he cannot bury.
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