The little man in the little store Was distracted seemed disconsolate I noticed when I went to pay for My Diet Coke and a Tootsie Pop
His condition seemed unbearable A flight before dying flying blind His face was tied in a knot of care
It must have been something terrible I tried to help but no matter what He would not share what he could not bear Wearing a mask which he would not drop
Certainly not for a well-known nut
Evolving into a madman now I can see I am not alone I always felt empathy somehow For all the madmen I have known
Some people just prefer to keep still A flight before dying flying blind As my father flew and always will
As for me I am the talkative kind My father and that little man are not And I leave my inhibitions behind Unlike them for my flight out of my mind
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
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