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This Book Is Closed But It Never Opened

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here I am escorted by doom and courted by gloom
it's a sad predicament
like being a crab without pinchers
so to speak
but I keep moving at the bottom of this sea 
... of what life
with the bottom dwellers
feeding off the scraps
and avoiding traps
but I'm unbalanced and defenseless 
and see myself as being a predator's dinner
I have no backdoor
or avenue of escape
Life isn't very worthy
So I'm unworthy of having my soul saved
And being of this existence
I feel down but I'm seventeen stories up
I'm low but I'm high at the moment
I pray
... bless me Father for I have sinned
So At the next low tide
At the next full moon, next impulse
I'll jump before being eaten 
I'll leave a splash
There are no more stories

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Connie Pachecho

Date: 9/6/2024 6:06:00 PM

The beauty of speed-writing a 3-minute poem is that for me there are no inhibitions. It's writing with raw emotions. Almost like being intoxicated and not worrying about the content. Or what the reader might think. I'll be honest the framework of this poem was done in less than 3 minutes but the editing took about another 7 minutes or so.

Connie Pachecho
Date: 9/11/2024 8:49:00 AM

I also purposely (or) try to write with intrigue and wordplay. For example is the writer intimating that there are no more stories to tell (last line), like pages in a book, or is the writer describing the distance between the 17th-floor stories up to the ground, which would then have a distance of zero stories?