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barbsdad2003
Jul 19, 2007 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

to blink or not to blink

 

if these old eyes

did not indulge

 

in blink,

 

by now, lo! these

past too many years

 

that I have spent

in old Algiers—

 

and working hard at Sears—

 

a lot I would

not have missed,

 

I think.

— barbsdad2003, Jul 19, 2007

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weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 11 months ago

this is a young mans poem

it says a lot about your spirit, Chuck. I remember well, and like you (I think) still feel that in any sleep or blink I miss what might save us or take us to the brink. oh dear, I missed the "not" in "not have missed," I get you almost wrong again and I can just hear you chuckling cheers, Jess
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Conect11

18 years 10 months ago

here at neopoet

a day or two feels like ten years. It's only been a day or two since I read a poem of yours and I feel like I need therapy, methadone, and some shlock treatment! But I'm starting to feel better already...
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 10 months ago

it does!

each time I log on a world has gone by, almost as if I blinked. cheers, Jess
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barbsdad2003

18 years 10 months ago

Mark, I love your ...

play on shock/schlock with shlock. whether planned or unplanned, or on purpose or by accident, I'll assume it was not only intentful ... but credibly purposeful. Yours, Chuck
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Conect11

18 years 10 months ago

indeed

it was. That's my story! :)

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