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strixy
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Anthem for an Apology
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Anthem for an Apology

I recall you down

Forty Thieves in petty coats fighting over petty codes as Miss Justice overdoses, casting comatose shadows and hues of an over-used red rose. She d**ns my lust benign and I am held in line by a broken pay phone with no one home to answer my call.

I recall you down only to have found this unconscious town bleeding for needing that thing with meaning after leaving and tainting the lightening striking an overused hanging gale with etchings in charcoal blowing every meaning like so many lost memories in an old age habitat.

I recall you - standing in grey scales, passing fault-finding opposition as half a heart of oxidized rulers - smashed on their own egoistic masochism and sadistic standards of azure lovers at equinox. You dripped finely ground copper stains tersely from blackened nails painted in retribution as you tacitly targeted the treacherous motley king inside me a traitor.

Do you remember me now
that I recall you down?

Shall we recall a ghost town with no ball gown, no one around - none - but one Jester to register the age of absolution? Is your face still painted in hatred? Are vipers now dressed as snipers? It's a suspicious postage shortage as lingering letters thus loiter or have you, at long last, d**ned the letterman?

Currently, there is no hurricane. Only a simple sign stands and sings in rusty sibilance outside the Hotel Sorry. It flashes in neon fashions – No Vacancy.

I recall you down through wisps of cirrus cloud and a searing sound as you are torn away from where you keep yourself. Merely mysterious ministrations - this unwonted midnight hound heals like a rusted and folded jack-knife fighting through scrap meals athwart the floorboards once sullied by insincere sincerity since sucked sanitary via the vacuum of introspection.

Are your sorrow songs scrawled in sand?
I tender amnesty within this open hand
Do you remember me now
that I recall you down?

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Re: Anthem for an Apology
« Reply #1 on Sept 3, 2005, 2:25pm »

I'm the first to admit I know little or nothing about poetry, but I have to say I was held totally spellbound when reading this. Very gripping and the emotion is to intense. You have an absolutely amazing way with words. Now I'm looking forward even more to reading your short stories.

Is this poem published, btw? If not, it should be.

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Re: Anthem for an Apology
« Reply #2 on Sept 4, 2005, 9:33am »

This is in a collection of short's due to be published. It's one of the pieces I have yet to finish editing. I think there are 72 shorts in the collection and about half of them are still in need of more editing.

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