Friday, January 8, 2010

Life Deferred

What happens to a life deferred?

Does it overflow
Like New Orleans after Katrina?
Or does it rot like a corpse--
And then disappear?
Does it reek like a corrupt egg?
Or rust and decay--
like a junkyard?

Maybe it just dies
like a comatose patient.

Or does it implode?

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