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Grex Poetry Item 119: My Apologies
Entered by brighn on Tue Jul 27 16:14:59 UTC 1999:

Tue, Jul 20 02:53:03 PM EDT 1999
I am my apologies:
It is what I have become.

This skin, this sex,
the God of my birth...
A heritage of tears
Clenched within the chokehold
Of an iron fist.

My apologies kneel me down,
Prostrate,
Before the Higher God
Of the lesser ones --
And I offer my guilt
As shallow payment.

My guilt, and the promise
That me and mine will not fail
Again.
It's so hard to stumble
When you're on your knees.

I am my apologies:
It is what I've become.

-- 7/20/99
(the first line is just the date stamp from the other place I posted this...
heh... the glories of cut 'n' paste)

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by toking on Tue Jul 27 20:13:58 1999:

short
to the point
good show

I think  I may enjoy this one for quite a while

#2 of 4 by brighn on Wed Jul 28 04:27:12 1999:

btw, this is "found art"... the first line was a typo somebody made in a
chatroom for "I'm sorry" and "My apologies." I thought the line was cool.

#3 of 4 by orinoco on Sun Aug 8 14:45:42 1999:

Wow...good stuff.  Great use of a found line, and a point well made.  "the
Higher God of the lesser ones" confused me a little, though.  But I agree with
Joe here, I'm gonna have to save this one.

#4 of 4 by brighn on Mon Aug 9 02:29:49 1999:

that's ok, I'm not sure what I meant by that now
heh

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