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Evan Stephens
Poems
Sep 2023
Ambition
"What's your greatest ambition?"
"To become immortal, and then die."
-Jean-Luc Godard in Truffaut's
Breathless
O immortal reader:
join me now (
in a pine grove
)
where in last night's dream
I attended my own funeral.
Oh no, it's not so morbid
(
think of Tom Sawyer
).
Besides, at 4:30 (
not even dawn
),
cats woke me in the half light
before the thing in the grave pit
began stirring and branching
(
upwards? downwards?
).
Instead I heard the speeches,
(
tremulous and sentimental
).
I saw the old pictures pinned
to the poster (
I looked decent
).
No one would talk about how,
how it happened,
but everyone said "I never
thought it would be like this."
(
What does that mean
?)
And, most mysterious of all,
"At least he achieved his ambition."
When I woke (
born to shadow
),
I had no idea what that might be,
but pennants of dawn are flying
over a moon drowning in a coffee cup.
Written by
Evan Stephens
44/M/DC
(44/M/DC)
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