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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 8. Fugue in a minor key
Fugue in a Minor Key
I fit
no simple frame,
I have no pigeonhole,
no snug category in which
to thrive;
too weak
for submission's obedience, That face:
too old for attraction, those distant eyes -
and far too strange how could one not see them?
for love. They looked as though they could see right
through me;
I saw
He searched. a lifetime's worth of sorrows there,
out my spirit; sadness mixed with yearning
I felt him try my doors or possibly
and peer furtively in at my murder.
windows;
what could
he possibly expect to see Embers
but clutter and old books. glowed dark and red
scattered across. like live gems on the hearth,
my soul? a meal of half-eaten joy sat
waiting;
I saw
his dry, ruined dish, now empty,
and wondered what alarm
made him leave it
behind.
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