I puked a solid mass of gelatin
Winning The War Within is a collection of sonnets written precisely in Shakespearean iambic pentameter but minus punctuation. The sonnets are a progressive poetic autobiography.
From Growing Up, the first section of the collection.
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I puked a solid mass of gelatin
Cream-colored on an oriental rug
I was just five the school was Oberlin
That one to five time gives my heart a tug
We lived across the street on Eightieth
Ten rooms two floors the best I fancy now
Yes though I am long past halfway to death
I’d go back there again if I knew how
I did go back it was not long ago
I walked from our two rooms near Herald Square
But I could not revive that long lost show
The puke remains my foremost memory
It had a marvelous solidity
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Stephen C. Rose has written a number of books (Fiction/Non-fiction). You can tweet him here.
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