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Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2291016
A collection of my autobiographical poems
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#1049766 added May 17, 2023 at 11:16pm
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Happy New Year
Midnight swaggers in
on a distant boom and crackle.
Cotton sheets slide off
warm feet
uncovered by restless bodies
dreaming of sleep.
A mumbled whisper
to greet the new year,
a far cry from
slurred shouts
and listing renditions of auld lang syne.
A snuffled snore and a sleepy smile.
I turn a new page.
Pyrotechnics fade,
and I put my book down
and sleep.


Free verse. Written 1 January 2016.
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