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Identity Longing

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So often, only grief and death unite the living. A snapshot exploration in prosetry. (Image by Shapovlov)

Monday, March 24, 2014


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Identity Longing
by Odin Roark

Perplexing

One of us?
One of them?

3 AM

Catastrophic earth shaking
Windows breaking
Walls cracking
Escaping crumbling brick building

Seeing

Local grocer
Grumpy old man
Won’t sell alcohol
Won’t speak to marginals

Sits down

Beside transvestite
Wearing long black wig
Cheap mascara
Running down cheeks

Being

Old man with trembling hand
Opens pack of cigarettes
Offers one to her
She accepts

Sharing

A conservative grocer
Crying transvestite
Together on the broken curb
Smoking in the face of death

Mundane differences
Evaporating
Becoming as one
If only for a few hours

Identity longing

Singularity’s pluralism
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Reviewed by Morgan Merriweather
Reviewed on March 25, 2014
why is it always a major event before the good seems to apply itself.
Reviewed by Christine Tsen
Reviewed on March 25, 2014
A Doppelganger's delight! Always such food for thought in your work.
So good to read you again :)
Christine
Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)
Reviewed on March 25, 2014
This is such an appropriately immediate glimpse. Current status of much falling to ash with public morale and security, even hope itself, these lines "One of us?/One of them?" ring far into the distance of the listening ear. The poem, in your forte of brevity, creates a 'sky is falling' nature of calamity and then puts it into slow motion and enlarges the vision to look at it with so few words as the stanza "Sharing....A conservative grocer..." So perfect these two finishing words: "Singularity's pluralism." I feel that these two words you have chosen are now all of our first and last names. ~~ Diana
Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on March 25, 2014
Tragedies always seem to bring mankind together. If only we could find another long lasting way to do the same.
Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce (Sandie Angel)
Reviewed on March 24, 2014
It's ironic that some humans still can't accept difference in another human being. But just because they are difference does not mean that their lives are of less values. Too sad.

Sandie
Reviewed by jeanne watson
Reviewed on March 24, 2014
You've captured quite well a moment of tragedy in which our humanity, unblemished and unrehearsed, manages to escape our own and society's censorship.

These are triumphic moments of humankind's potential spread over our existence in bits and pieces. I wish we could hold on to such moments.

Excellent poem ... so real and so relevant ...

~jeanne
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 24, 2014
Hopefully, tragedies can bring us together. Not like the anarchy displayed in popular dramas these days.

Ron
Reviewed by Kathy Parenteau
Reviewed on March 24, 2014
Wonderful poem. A pleasure to read.

Kathy
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on March 24, 2014
Sounds like something happening in the aftermath of the Washington State's awful mudslides, Odin. Such kinds of things do bring people together.

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