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Misery Loves Company

June 11, 2019
By airons8167 BRONZE, Rosedale, New York
airons8167 BRONZE, Rosedale, New York
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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


The author's comments:

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.


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