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On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 17:22:05 UTC-4, blackpo...@aol.com wrote:
> On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 8:52:57 AM UTC-4, Edward Rochester Esq. wrote: 
> > On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 2:03:48 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote: 
> > > Start posting: 
> > I’m Afraid I’ve Lost My Way 
> > 
> > I’m afraid I’ve lost my way 
> > in the light of the Frigidaire. 
> > 
> > That interrupted sleep, 
> > my creep to the sweet 
> > treats that call out my name, 
> > a shame, it was empty, 
> > forgetting the last cookie went in 
> > around midnight 
> > after its dip into cold coffee. 
> > 
> > Do not feel sorry for my senile 
> > Zombie walk, my talk to the wrinkled 
> > curtains that have never kept out 
> > streetlights and full moons. 
> > 
> > I was ok once, all words came without 
> > that scratch to a bed head, that fridge 
> > stocked before last sale date, a mate that asked 
> > what was wrong when strength seemed to disappear. 
> > 
> > I’ll write a note to self, a list of what came easy 
> > once upon a time, but now I’ve forgotten the Frigidaire 
> > is empty and I’ll stumble back to where dreams 
> > were once sweet. 
> > 
> > Edward Rochester Esq.
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> 
> 
> 
> Cat Cries 
> 
> It's empty down the West-Side Highway 
> except for a shadow or two hidden back 
> from curbside, half dancing with feral cats 
> under blinking blue neon, repeating, 'closed'. 
> 
> It's never closed, Breslin argues, always someone 
> having a malted or being slashed for a wallet, 
> always someone with a bent spoon cooking the nights snack, 
> their eyeroll into never, never land. 
> 
> There are some setting alarms, morning comes early 
> for the next shift while outside, the dark holds a space 
> for the wide-awake finding shadows have all the answers 
> and sell the most papers. 
> 
> 
> Edward Rochester Esq.