| Beatitude
Poetry Contents: PATRICK E.
CLARK
patrickclark@musician.net
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1. Past To Be
2. The Gossip
3. THE TIME BEYOND NOW
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THE GOSSIP
I STRAINED ATTACHMENT
AS THEY DRIFTED PERILOUSLY
FROM THEMSELVES
EARS WIDE
DRAWING THEIR WORDS
INTO MY HANDS
SHAPED
AND TAKEN FOR LATER
WHAT RUMOR AND LIE
PASSED BETWEEN THEM
TASTED AND SHARED
AS A SWEET, DARK DRINK
NEVER QUESTIONED
THEY BOUGHT HIM STRAIGHT
AND MADE HIM SURE
I ALONE WAS AWARE
THE FRUIT OF THIS DOING
AND THE DAMAGE
BUT I REMAINED APART
PREFERRING TO WATCH
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