Writing until the light goes out

Writing until the light goes out

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Writing until the light goes out
Writing until the light goes out
Sonnets 81 - 85
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Sonnets 81 - 85

Feb 12, 2024
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Writing until the light goes out
Writing until the light goes out
Sonnets 81 - 85
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It was as if I had resolved to make

a cake but found the eggs were rotten.

I rescued what I could. Yet how could I take

comfort in that, knowing I’d forgotten

to source all ingredients needed? “You have

an unhealthy ambition,” you said, “which when you die

you’ll take unfulfilled to your grave

having lived nothing but a half-baked lie.”

Is there no merit in my part-blended verse?

Nothing tempting you to read

no matter how much mixing I might rehearse?

Not only is my output seemingly insipid,

the ink has dried and crusted in my pen -

spur enough to see you enraptured by other men.

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