Brautigan Was A Drunk, But He Got This Right... by Mike Essig

Apr 2015

Brautigan Was A Drunk, But He Got This Right...

"I am here
and you are distant."

The essential sadness
of those words
seizes the heart
of loneliness.

Here/distant:
the kernel
of so much despair
and poetry.
- mce

#loneliness

Written by

Mike Essig Mechanicsburg, PA

(Mechanicsburg, PA)

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