Unrepentant but defeated

By cadymae

Bathos and defeat.

Battles lost, ceded.

Amid others ease,
crumble with your
untold stories.

The tiles of these hotel lobbies
have that endless
stop-sign edge
that can hold
a wasteland of
attention at bay.

Before all other time-kills
there was the 1000-yard stare
ceaselessly horrifying
both gazer and gazee

The squares on the floor of admitting
will be octagonal soon, too.

Aggie will like my chartreuse sundress

I should have done my dishes.

I cede them now.

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Copyright 2012 cadymae
Published on Friday, May 4, 2012.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • FadedBlues On Saturday, May 5, 2012, FadedBlues (2172)By person wrote:

    ...takes some slicing thru the rind to get to the sweet fruit of this. I'm not quite there yet...the '1000-yard stare' stanza is intriguing...

  • cadymae On Monday, May 7, 2012, cadymae (73)By person wrote:

    Mite not be anything sweet inside that one. Just a picture of an old spent lady committing suicide by pills to complement my piece on an old spent man killing himself with a gun. "Nothing to see here. Move along... " Even a sad life deserves a witness at its end.

  • cadymae On Monday, May 7, 2012, cadymae (73)By person wrote:

    http://www.darkpoetry.com/node/work/158940 was the poem about her ex-companion dying.

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