+ 2ND POEMS: Break For Old Possum

Old Possum, at this last, eleventh hour

I am---upon these sign-waves---coming back

(an old man, crippled, chair-ridden, and dour)

to take up, once more, what has gone too slack;

that which I had, through my default, betrayed

(having become too fearful and afraid,

having become too steeped in the pretension

to arrogant, belittling condescension---

Karen and Linda said so, in aught four,

Monday, May tenth that year, recalled once more).

But this is mere autobiography.

And what I have launched forth, as Poetry,

will (I hope) be more than just the sum of me,

with some small share of spirituality.


Starward

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

In the title, the word "break" is used as on the c.b., a word indicating that the person who has spoken it wishes to speak or to engage in conversation.  The first five lines refer to my reading experience during my freshman collegiate year---September 9th, 1976 through June 7th, 1977; a reading experience betrayed by the dire circumstances of my sophomore year.

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