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Friday, March 21, 2025

The Fate of a Struggling Poet

candlelight dinner
a love haiku
gifted to my blind date

these ums and ahs
she splits every bill
down to the cent

On the eve of Lottery Day, half asleep ... and yet half awake, I hear her laugh in my laughter. 

The first rays of sunlight slant through my bedroom window. It's a serious thing: just to be alive on this fresh morning in the dream-shattered world.