Friday, July 26, 2013

Proverb within a poem

It was easy, the dissolution, legally;
harder is facing the return to autonomy.
How much better our informal partnership
before we decided to incorporate.
In the reasoned light of hindsight,
a more viable option would have been
candlelit, covert meetings,
more passionate than profound,
more exotic than essential.
The rush to merger called down a
curse on hard-won, individual freedoms;
thus the union foundered.
Now, darkness conceals clandestine pleasures.

--PL, from delicious fatigue, 1992

2 comments:

  1. sometimes structure takes away the fun, doesn't it? very cool.

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  2. You got the proverb? It had no structure except to be sure a word in the proverb appeared (except for one line). It really describes my second, short-lived marriage--if you couldn't tell. Original title, A Failed Marriage Hides a Proverb. xoxo

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