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As I came and reclined into shame
I spied a fly in the corner by the clock
And post nut clarity thrust me into his mind
Where I saw my own cock through his multi faceted eye

Limp, tired and most of all unsatisfied
I saw too the porn on the screen
Paused before the climax
Didnt he wish to be one of them?

Instead he sits in his chair in the corner
Living through visual vicariousness another’s pleasure
I saw loneliness and desperation etched in brow furrows
A garden left fallow for another seed not sown

Oh to be the fly and live a short life
Maybe it’s neutered length would give more meaning
To each moment or at least shorten the length
Of my shame as I look at the mess I’ve made

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I wanted to marry a romantic poet

One who doodles me a limerick  

Just to hear my laughter  

But instead I married him

Who takes his cigarettes in long drags

And exhales in depressing sighs

.

Morose, mad, and at times unkind

I wanted him to woo my heart and mind

.

I wanted to marry a thoughtful poet

One who writes verses about birdsongs

And knows the secret beauty of a clover flower

But instead I married him

Who shatters my dreams just to ask if  

“I woke from a dream of my own death in disappointment” is too trite a line

.

I regret the growing distance between us in space and time

All I wanted was for him to woo my heart and mind

.

I wanted to marry a real poet

Someone whose poems had some meaning

Not just borrowed lines of lustful yearning

But instead I married him

Who measures meter with a stick, not makes it in verse

And who can only occasionally find a rhyme

.

I’ve asked him over and over

I’ve all but begged him to try

to woo my heart and mind

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