Generation Lost

Married to introspection,
  we left for Paris

And with fools and dilettantes
  got carried away

Living on melancholy,
  our quarter was poor

The Seine’s romance but fiction
   —our fantasies played

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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August 25, 2018 at 7:39 AM
Excellent piece Kurt! xomo
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