Showing posts with label ultimatum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ultimatum. Show all posts

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Ultimate(um)


Please don't look closely.
If you could just squint
and tell me it's good
or just walk away...

It's not taking shape
like I said, trust me though,
as I said it was,
it is nothing...

like you've seen
a thousand times no,
you never saw once
entirely, just hurry

it along, you've said and pled.
I'd rather not, you know
I can't make it-right
write as it is instead.




Image By loosepunctuation (Erica Kline) (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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