A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Thursday, December 17, 2020

tidy omissions

Imagine a story 
made of the parts 
left out from every 
other story ever told
where they went to 
the bathroom 

from Adam & Eve
to King Arthur and
Guinevere down to
Ethan Hunt and his whole
Impossible Mission Force
team, even mighty Achilles 
and The Beatles, sure 

I hope we can admit 
there's peculiar note 
of omission, there - as if 
we're afraid of something

we'd learn of ourselves 
in the telling. Or maybe 
we just know that part 
stinks! And we'd rather 
pass on to the more 
interesting strive 
and struggle 
and stuff

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