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Strivers

submitted by prototype to poetry 4 monthsJan 29, 2025 02:59:39 ago (+3/-1)     (poetry)

out of the wilderness hunched
a grey breaking dawn
premosaic and unisexual
shadowing id, like wall-posters
among down town ramparts
brick holes to stay warm in
little bars with little bands and unknown brews
and north eastern forests
a tide riding svelte new york far west
the rambunctious fieldboots front running destiny
and making arboretums out of natives
all so they may rest on their laurels
indivisible, and atomized
like housing projects, named after what they were built atop
among the pines and warless outposts
a truck stop to absolute oblivion
a flicker in the lamplight of lust
last stop seattle, last stop the cold pacific
little more than the fruitless panegoisms
of sterile pollination between bedfellows, between classmates
another bullwhip for the unmarked years angsting like a discography
full of scratches and silence, with no one to listen.
They could go deaf from their modernness, the noise and throw their glowing bricks
into the sea with no one to notice, and no one to care.
gorging poseidon on glass apples made of others toil
Another unnoted page, full of unremarkable people, going nowhere.

in the bibliography of their generations autobiography
in a million little ocean towns, big, and small, called 'despair'.
You'll find them, still there. Trying to 'make it', still trying to 'go somewhere'.


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