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Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
#932572 added April 11, 2018 at 12:24pm
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Every Friday
it’s been a long time
that time has turned on me
but once,
I did my public duty
by zipping along the week
in my trench-coat and stilettos
so sane, so well-adjusted, so boring

despite the blister on my big toe
and the pounding ache over the left eye
for I was laden in the work lagoon
with opaque options and oversights,
balancing on log-rafts of pretexts

now, a blurred memory
my battery-power fizzing out
fluttering
with a last gasp of air
on murky waters
like a Common Moorhen…

the way I dismantled myself
every Friday

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Prompt: a day of the week

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