Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Greek Tragedy


Greek Tragedy

White screen
Pen or typed words
Keystrokes of pain
Like Greek tragedies
My life is unveiled
Opening of Oedipus
Laughter of hysterics
Pale faces in the darkness
I am displayed
Fluorescent people
In seated rows
Oprah talk to me
On your bestseller list
Get the latest in print
Once upon a timelessness
Happily ever after a sarcasm
No fairytale endings
Brother's Grimm indeed
Readers under lamplight
Glasses perched
The end of my life
Adrift in a Hemingway novel
Old and full of sorrow

C. Lin Rawlins May 2002 Revision©

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