Who Knows How Soon
I am composer of the minimal.
I celebrate what others overlook.
I am companion to the small and real.
That could be the start of a sonnet.
A pleasing theme! I would expound upon it
by naming and describing small real things.
But I just don't have the bandwidth nowadays:
an outsized butterfly with leaden wings.
I'm finding life too heavy, much too burdened:
my dragging body, curelessly sleepstarved;
my organs aging toward their certain end.
Strong coffee can't stir up my sluggish nerves ---
and soon, who knows how soon, will come the sleep
from which no bright alarm will wake me up.
Poetry by Uncle Meridian
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Written on 2023-10-13 at 09:32
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