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Misery Loves Company
My heart lay idle on a ticking time bomb waiting to meet its end
From your madness-driven passion I fall in the depths of the Grand Canyon
Or a bottomless pit inhabited by Erebos
Or to the ends of the ocean
Which carries your flaws with its tides To the sound of music
That you love so much, reminiscent of the times we spent
Together. Why didn’t you tell me it was a mistake
Every phrase of suspicion you gave me
Every second spent watching the Grandfather clock
Waiting for an excuse to say goodbye
Beady brown eyes gleam at my failure
And my sufferance, in guilt
At the wedding I sat in lonesome
As you danced with pals I’d yet
Never seen, and I drowned my desires
To the taste of Gallo

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While writing this poem, I tried my best to channel Bill Knott. I included his new starts of sentences in the middle of lines, his overall format of lines and stanza ratio, as well as his almost excessive use of allusions and most thin connections to previous statements. The poem is meant to be similar to his poems about love, like “February Fourteenth: Freezeframe” and “The Sculpture,” and a cry for help from a person to their lover. The main character is supposed to be in an emotional frenzy, and is spilling out their feelings without care for structure or how they sound. The most important component of this piece is the message. Each stanza brings about another memory they cannot forget as hard as they try.