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An apprentice, A median, A string being pulled by a thousand barefoot Ishmaels, A jinxed runner breaking a sweat with no chances at all to win, A malicious old lover spoiling the blood and your afternoon drink with friends, An undecided star ready to fall yet condescending those who do, A train-wreck in the middle of her shadow, A drunk ladybug running circles on purple sand, An ancient God duct-taped to the front window of an old cadillac, A modern Prometheus bringing the light to those smoking in need, A hard-timer, A heart-stopper, A poor jew, A rich gipsy, A legend told to many yet known by few, An another turmoil on the road, A brick in a wooden wall, A book on a toilet shelf of Eris, An argument without a sober ending, A limbo of hangovers and beggars, An all-time vagabond, A Harvard-educated vagrant, A millennial beatnik with hipster beard and a smoothie, A long, long, infinitely long prayer, An infidel, A blasphemer, A judge being served with a lawsuit and a rib-eye, A piece of rotten meat stuck between tusks of mediocrity, An unrightfully convicted man stuck between a cloak and a dagger, A taxi-cab full of infidelity, *** and trumpet prophecies, A Dean Moriarty of Israel and Palestine, A Mohammed Ali of subdued conscience, A drug-dealing moralist of unmowed lawns, A blood sample taken from a freshly mopped crime scene, A freshly ground coffee inside a sleeping pill, A critic of virtues and a defender of vices, An empty drawer of one’s imagination, An unborn citizen of no-where, A creaky moss-grown pier, A sound of a lighter, A smell of a wet cigarette, A shade of a read book, A touch of a salty wind blowing on you, A hand in your hair, A new dawn.
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM UTC
Portrait of the Unknown
An apprentice, A median, A string being pulled by a thousand barefoot Ishmaels, A jinxed runner breaking a sweat with no chances at all to win, A malicious old lover spoiling the blood and your afternoon drink with friends, An undecided star ready to fall yet condescending those who do, A train-wreck in the middle of her shadow, A drunk ladybug running circles on purple sand, An ancient God duct-taped to the front window of an old cadillac, A modern Prometheus bringing the light to those smoking in need, A hard-timer, A heart-stopper, A poor jew, A rich gipsy, A legend told to many yet known by few, An another turmoil on the road, A brick in a wooden wall, A book on a toilet shelf of Eris, An argument without a sober ending, A limbo of hangovers and beggars, An all-time vagabond, A Harvard-educated vagrant, A millennial beatnik with hipster beard and a smoothie, A long, long, infinitely long prayer, An infidel, A blasphemer, A judge being served with a lawsuit and a rib-eye, A piece of rotten meat stuck between tusks of mediocrity, An unrightfully convicted man stuck between a cloak and a dagger, A taxi-cab full of infidelity, *** and trumpet prophecies, A Dean Moriarty of Israel and Palestine, A Mohammed Ali of subdued conscience, A drug-dealing moralist of unmowed lawns, A blood sample taken from a freshly mopped crime scene, A freshly ground coffee inside a sleeping pill, A critic of virtues and a defender of vices, An empty drawer of one’s imagination, An unborn citizen of no-where, A creaky moss-grown pier, A sound of a lighter, A smell of a wet cigarette, A shade of a read book, A touch of a salty wind blowing on you, A hand in your hair, A new dawn.
Originally published on Medium @ Poets Unlimited https://medium.com/poets-unlimited/portrait-of-the-unknown-7be8759da9d2
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doctor_mee
28/M/Moscow, Russia
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM UTC
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