I AM WITHOUT POETRY
I am without poetry
Flat dead inside
Why?
Too much sickness of friends and relatives
Too much failure in my own writing life
I write these lines too
Without enthusiasm or hope
Or any great sense of meaning
An exercise to keep myself going
A small effort in the struggle to stay alive
Without Poetry I write Poetry to stay alive
A whole small poem for one line of meaning
Towards the end.
Shalom Freedman
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