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Drinking in a Blind Room

I'm not writing a poem now, I'm drinking wine in a dark room. As always I am tempted to drag the moon into this moment or whatever, make a fuss about something just like those who, not even seeing the moon or its light, just sit in the dark spinning webs for dead spiders. Why drag anything into a dark wine glass, as if you just caught it from the corner of a closed eye? Does imagination care to be hooked like a fish out of that overfished pond you call reverie or some other bull name? I'm not writing anything about the past or future, not even this present, this no-time has already moved into another dark room and has drunk a bottle of wine I had been saving for later. Dead poetry comes alive before you think about it, and by then it's probably too late.

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Date: 2/16/2025 12:03:00 PM
Intoxicating Eric, there's definitely a rabbit hole in this one somewhere
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Eric Ashford
Date: 2/17/2025 9:44:00 AM
LOL, thanks for the fun review, Dilly! The wine bottle is either half full or half empty. Cheers!

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