🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 6:27:49 PM UTC-4, blackpo...@aol.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 2:03:48 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote: 
> > Start posting:
> Solitary 
> 
> I look down and see no shadow, 
> the trees have shadows, as do cars 
> and fire hydrants, 
> the local drunk has a shadow, 
> stumbles when he stumbles 
> but mine is missing, even when tested 
> with a small hop or raised arm. 
> 
> I’m dead I assume, walking dead 
> but music I hear drifting from clubs, 
> shouts I hear, punctuating the night 
> from behind closed curtains 
> and I’m left knowing death is real 
> as I test a mirror, shop window, 
> perhaps a puddle, no, nothing there, 
> I’m dead. 
> 
> It seems memory has run away, 
> what road did I travel to get to where 
> I used to be, the lovers have no faces 
> as I spin out into blackness. 
> 
> There is a small tear, a white handkerchief 
> pressed to a blank face, an echo of name 
> but it’s as lost as my shadow, 
> my run in slow motion, takes me in circles. 
> 
> My eyes have stopped blinking. 
> 
> Edward Rochester Esq.

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