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0 posted 2012-02-03 09:27 PM


sometimes
I really want
a cigarette

even though
I've never
smoked

sometimes
I tremble
past the liquor store

though
I've never been
a drinker

some nights
I wake
when you whisper
my name

though
it's a name
you've never spoken

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JerryPat2
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1 posted 2012-02-03 10:11 PM


Sounds to me like you have lived without living.

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Marchmadness
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2 posted 2012-02-03 11:34 PM


If you haven't lived you have certainly managed, in some way, to acquire a great insight and understanding that any poet would envy, Anthony.
                              Ida

[This message has been edited by Marchmadness (02-04-2012 03:19 AM).]

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Member Rara Avis
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3 posted 2012-02-05 02:46 PM


Awww, I read an addict who keeps his addictions at bay.  And a romantic who knows that love can be one more addiction. It's kind of like looking in a mirror - though I have been known to over induldge.  I don't like to assume anything about a poem - and, most certainly, I don't like to assume a poem is about the poet.  I just know this.  I want sometimes too.

A

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