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What? The Flames Already! ( Voltaire's Dying Words)
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Beside his deathbed
the lamp flared up
burning through the mist
of his delirium.
The corseted guilt
freed from
his unconscious
the rationalizations
of his life
exposed
riding on his halting,
labored breaths.
And all
this came
with a simple
primal
flame.


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 Reviews of "What? The Flames Already! ( Voltaire's Dying Words)"
Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen
Reviewed on December 29, 2002
Wonderful wording, I could see him/me there, in the lonely flicker, in an opened mind...great piece, Doug!

Happy New Year to you!

Erin
:)
Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on December 29, 2002
not everyone sees the light;-)...great write!
Reviewed by na na (Reader)
Reviewed on December 29, 2002
Doug, very well done. Bill Murray
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on December 29, 2002
great! well done!
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