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Clock

Your clock’s ticking

Tocking as your reign nears its end

Telling you to give it up for a positive existence

Or is this act in your nature?

Living your life in solitary solitude

Because you can’t go out in public

 

Is your megalomaniacal lifestyle that appealing,

That alluring to you?

Will you ever give it up

And end your shadowy existence?

Because your shadow is luminous

In the dark alley, luminating.

 

Tomorrow will be your end

I’m sick and tired of searching

For your sorry ***

 

I hope when you’re in solitude

Within those prison walls

You do nothing but curl up

Just like a sleeping cat

For hours on end.

 

The countdown on your clock

Your watch

Your life

Has hit zero…

Do you feel accomplished?

 

February 21, 2012

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Written by
ben-dubois
American
Published
Feb 21, 2012
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Notes

I challenged myself to have a stranger give me 10 words and I would write a poem containing all of them. The words were as follows: solitary, alluring, megalomaniac, luminous, clocks, tomorrow, tired, existence, nature, and cat. This is what was produced as a result.

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