Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Dissipation

Youthful notions dissipate in the experience dustbowl,

Whipped away by the corroding dirt.

It’s a devil full of hard color.

The child knows no bitter taste,

But the adult constantly lozenges,

Face pinched in a sour grimace.

Our sonless wives nagger us,

Their pitched voices grating,

As they critically self-satisfy.

You who know the sense of loss,

Weep with me in dire remonstrance.

For we are specks of dust on an angry sea,

Raisined hands grasping for a shattered ego-oar,

Tossed about without a will,

Strewn about without a soul.

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