I went through a stage in my poetry in college in which I felt the shape and flow of the words was very important to some things. I liked this one. Sorry about all the periods at the beginning of the lines. It was the only way I could find to get the words to stay where I put them in WP.
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Time After Time
By Scott L Vannatter
2/6/86
. Creeping,
. Sulking,
. Drooling,
. Weeping,
Age drags toward rendezvous
. Death,
I,
On downhill slalom, race as though a difference in
. When, where, how, why.
Why?
. Why not?
Pressure builds,
. Pleasure of ease sounds gong,
. Do not ask for whom…
. You, me, all,
. Eventually.
Time spent- Sentence, actually-
. Pounding life’s rocks, Picking, prodding,
Loving hateful life… …What else?
. Ladder-after-ladder Rung-follows-rung
.Up Up
. And And And And So on and so on and…
. Down Down
Philosophical tediousness, Strain to goal- Rug Jerked.
Dust off, No…don’t look back…Pain there.
.
. Change those clothes and
. MmmOooVvvEee OooNnn…
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Namaste,
Scott
Comments
Interesting. I haven’t played with word positioning on the page since high school, my self.
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