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Life Arts    H4'ed 9/24/22

Sonnet: An Old Man's Lament at Midnight

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Break the silence of the night with agony's light

and double rhyme in double time chutes and ladders;

fall through dreams with lollipop screams, am I not right?

Up again toilet-bound old men with full bladders

thinking of something TS Eliot once said

about April's cruelty, or hope and despair.

Why did I let those accolades go to my head?

Why wasn't I absorbed in a Blob of old fear

like everyone else with polter ghosts under their beds --

where I stupidly went to do battle one night

expecting something out of Rod Serling's twee dreads

only to find dust bunnies and nothing to fight.

By accident I lit the bed on fire -- pyro!

A long life ahead for an un-aging tyro.

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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