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Thursday, August 09, 2007

A Poem Found in Life?

Some free verse or just choppy prose. I don't write poetry much these days. Judge tenderly of me.

In A San Francisco Bookshop

I saw a man
In San Francisco
At a bookstore
Near The Purple Onion,
Squinting
Through two Pairs of spectacles
Double decker,
Stacked one on top of the other.

A scholar
A reader of books and thoughts
Struggling
Against body and
Time's degradation,
God's infinite jest.

3 comments:

  1. I like it. Makes me think a bit of the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last."

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  2. Cool poem! Definitely a keeper. Keep it up!

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