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April Fool’s Day: Day Nineteen
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It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day,
Familiar sights yawned my return,
To friends - I’d never been away,
My hobbled cane of no concern.
The parties still reek of spilled beer,
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day,
Still Chronic Town, though SHE’s not here,
Still chronic hope, still soul’s dismay.
How drinking stills this disarray,
And midnight ACID runs surprise,
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day,
Burned, damp, austere in failed sunrise.
I stumble on, not knowing why,
Through nights of sleepless dreams convey
In wants that cast themselves away,
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day.
19/30
Words: 100
Unique Words: 70
#NaPoWriMo2019
NaPoGloPoWriMo2019
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day,
Familiar sights yawned my return,
To friends - I’d never been away,
My hobbled cane of no concern.
The parties still reek of spilled beer,
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day,
Still Chronic Town, though SHE’s not here,
Still chronic hope, still soul’s dismay.
How drinking stills this disarray,
And midnight ACID runs surprise,
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day,
Burned, damp, austere in failed sunrise.
I stumble on, not knowing why,
Through nights of sleepless dreams convey
In wants that cast themselves away,
It smells so dead ‘April Fool’s Day.
19/30
Words: 100
Unique Words: 70
#NaPoWriMo2019
NaPoGloPoWriMo2019
Published 19th Apr 2019
Author's Note
My move back to Athens, GA - April 1, 1984.
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20th Apr 2019 4:16am
“Burned, damp, austere in failed sunrise...”
It’s your way of expressing to the reader such as this...
that makes the experience so palpable, so impressive... even brutal. You take me there in all the senses.
tu Tigresa x
It’s your way of expressing to the reader such as this...
that makes the experience so palpable, so impressive... even brutal. You take me there in all the senses.
tu Tigresa x
