THE UNSTRANGLING OF MY DISPOSITION

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feeling too pushed

the mothball evening

boasts a forbidden game

like flesh and culture

tossed to the unforgiving rug

I now can only recalled passion

yet overly self damned is thee

who becomes bogged down in such

society thats of shimmering shame

in the careless spending and giving

of one's self

no one allows to the full degree

their more true desperation to show

its a bloody gang rape of the mind

yet still such unremarkable fools

gobble up all that foul stinking

garbage from the proverbial get go

where as some on the other hand

merely nibbled so very lady like at

the edges

their true natures veiled like ravenous

sharks on the hunt

among a school of unsuspecting dolphins

I think of the entire dirty lot of 'em

they were by far most dangerous

for it was their eyes that held the most

appalling look of shock

a look that had been practiced often

enough that it gave the unobservant

on looker that initial shallow impression

its too bad that they were found out so

early in their subtle play

after all

for only so long

can one  cry, laugh and pretend

but when its all over for everyone

that's the end.....................

(May 4, 1998)




Author's Notes/Comments: 

inspired by Edith Wharton's book 'The Age Of Innocence'

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