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Absolution (Free verse) by Drunk Russian Poet

One night can't be enough for reliving near-death experiences and in nine long months there will be a new you. He must have been wearing your favorite genes for you to have gone this far. Don't you think he should know? Trampling down the dusty road of bittersweet revelation; should you be a liar or a cheat, it will be the chance of a lifetime. In the many conversations with yourself, do you ever question your own sanity? The truth often hurts, but silence is betrayal. Where will you be when judgement comes? Holding your bastard child, and explaining the situation to ears that should never hear those words.

Dovina 25-Jun-04/9:29 AM
I take it as a kind of priestly advice for gaining "Absolution" for having committed the perceived sin af adultry, advising the woman to tell her child his breeding. She questions whether to tell, apparently because of guilt feelings. The last verse is provocatively ambiguous because we don't know whether the "ears" are the child's or the world's. Good.




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