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BB Tyler
Poems
Sep 2010
Ennui
my grandfather told me
that i was full of ennui
he said that he could see it in my poems.
he could see it spreading
like moss
from the space between the sentences and the
ends of them
he said that it slid from my ears
like life
from another man,
hung up on some perpendicular problem
he said it was present in my eyes.
like the sky,
what once was blue
is now gray
he felt it in my sleeve,
reaching out to meet his hand
and grip it,
without enthusiasm
he told me that it was familiar.
that its face had worn him,
this ennui
Am I it,
or is it I?
"You are full of Ennui,"
my grandfather said to me
"no"
i told him
"everyone else is."
He laughed,
without enthusiasm.
Copyright: Bennett Tyler
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