Wednesday, May 28, 2025

public announcement via poem Oct. 4, 2012

 

  

It is not something you believe until it happens, like the vague memory of a bad dream, the details of which unfold from a poem before the official announcement later tells you it is true, the man weeping on the far side of the telephone, who clearly had not read the same poem she posted and so got no warning about it until it kicked him in the teeth, love never enough, especially when unrequited, maybe later, feeling betrayed about not having heard it first from here, and she believing she was not good enough, strong enough, wise enough or whatever, the world conspiring against here when she assumed she was on the right road to the right place, when she never was, not yellow brick road, no Wizard of Oz, no helpful companion with our without brain or heart or courage, but plenty of evil witches which diver her. Bringing her down, and she has no way to defeat them, so she must endure, moving on as she had done so many times before


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