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(Self Portrait #7 by LewSethics)

What Were You Undertaking?

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Don’t come to me in anguish, on your bruised knees like a suitor,

To beg a piece of my life to fill some empty chasm

You imagined in your fantasy of power and seduction

When you thought about the many times you wished you had a feeling

Or a passion or religion when all you really needed

Was to say you don’t know something you thought you should have memorized.

But you were undertaking to fulfill the lies you promised

And the jester that you worship only takes the golden visa

That is offered with the left hand to the gypsy fortune teller

That doesn’t see you crying when you shed your inhibitions

And ask someone to hold your hand and look into your eyes

That lie and sparkle when they steal and chuckle when they cry.

The miasma of you oozing from the newly ruptured derma

In the corner of the valley that illuminates your memory

Of the way life used to be when the sun rose every morning

And the birds they were a –chirping and the clouds above the rainbows

Circled Venus like a polka at a wedding where the organ player died.

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(As Long as Jimmy Getsoff # 13 by LewSethics)

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