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Spring is such a pessimistic, cynical look at the "idiot" season, that I can't help but laugh and love it. How often is poetry about spring written from the grouch's perspective?
— May 31, 2022 07:31PM
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Grown Up
Was it for this I uttered prayers
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half- past eight?
— May 26, 2022 07:00PM
Was it for this I uttered prayers
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half- past eight?
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"Dark, Dark, is all I find for metaphor;
All else were contrast,- save that contrast's wall
Is down, and all opposed things flow together
In a vast monotony, where night
And day, and frost and thaw, and death and life,
Are synonyms."
— Apr 27, 2022 07:27PM
All else were contrast,- save that contrast's wall
Is down, and all opposed things flow together
In a vast monotony, where night
And day, and frost and thaw, and death and life,
Are synonyms."
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From Interim:
"And yet,-I am not sure. I am not sure,
Even, if it was white or pink; for then
'Twas much like any other flower to me,
Save that it was the first. I did not know,
Then, that it was the last..."
— Apr 25, 2022 08:18PM
"And yet,-I am not sure. I am not sure,
Even, if it was white or pink; for then
'Twas much like any other flower to me,
Save that it was the first. I did not know,
Then, that it was the last..."
