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Lorraine Schechter

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Late afternoon, impending storm
unpended and this restless heart
hops from moment to moment
disengaged; even poems pall.
Reading of eros, agape and philia
I laugh out loud here alone
on a mountaintop, wind picking up
all around me life in full profusion
cultivating boredom as an antidote
to the profusion of life below.
I'd write a love poem
graphic, rich in erotic imagery
but I can't get it up, as they say.
Bored with boredom.
I can't continue this game
this hiding out. When the rain comes
I'll take my clothes off and run outside.
I'll let the cold wet pellets of water
wake me from this oblivion.

How many people live like this
all the time?



Copyright © 1998 Lorraine Schechter.

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