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A Place For Morose

It’s time to put aside my pen and pout awhile. Forty years of dreams squashed like a beer can under the wheel of a wild vintage car. It’s time to sulk, to bathe myself in self-hatred. Brooding on my past failures to create, a box I created and can’t escape. Let the gloom of the night roll slowly over me. Showing the failure, I was born to be. Hang on the cross for all eternity. But just as Prometheus, bore his daily due, Liver picked, torn, a bleeding tatter. I return expecting a difference. Please allow to me my daily state of morose, doesn’t last longer than a cigarette. Now ready to strive forward once again.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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Date: 2/14/2020 1:31:00 PM
This is SO good. A fave. Thank you! xomo
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Alison Hodges
Date: 2/14/2020 1:34:00 PM
Thanks Maureen. I'm glad you like it so strongly! I suppose a lot of people here might relate.

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