{"id":695,"date":"2020-11-24T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=695"},"modified":"2021-06-18T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:02:00","slug":"personals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/personals\/","title":{"rendered":"Personals"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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A Path Not Taken<\/em> by Jennifer Frederick<\/p><\/div>\r\n

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Personals<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Robert L. Penick<\/p>\r\n

I’d like to find some desiccated<\/p>\r\n

shell of a woman, tired of failure and<\/p>\r\n

full of nervous tics, always pushing<\/p>\r\n

her hands out into the dark, beyond<\/p>\r\n

the candlelight and television glow,<\/p>\r\n

reaching into the abyss of night<\/p>\r\n

to rummage for her meaning.<\/p>\r\n

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Let her be a whore, a former fool<\/p>\r\n

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or someone who bet on the wrong man<\/p>\r\n

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and lost, badly, wearing the scars,<\/p>\r\n

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tracks, and crow\u2019s feet as proof that life<\/p>\r\n

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can be an endless stream of rejection slips<\/p>\r\n

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from parents, lovers, schools, banks,<\/p>\r\n

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employers, and God.<\/p>\r\n

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Let us find one another and step<\/p>\r\n

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quietly into shadows of our own<\/p>\r\n

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devising; let us grow mad<\/p>\r\n

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with genius, fat with promise, and<\/p>\r\n

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let us carve ourselves into this world<\/p>\r\n

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like brilliant, beautiful wounds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Robert L Penick’s<\/strong> poetry and prose have appeared in over 100 different literary journals. More of his work can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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