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Seasonal Memories (Free verse) by ErgoErgun
A purposefully dilapidated Mexican restaurant, subdued puke tenors
emptied from a Bottle of Bacardi 151, a disheveled broken-hearted
Mexican restaurant in a weary city:
These are the remains of an iconoclastic season...
Hot summer waltzes with simplicity and love that swayed four boy's lives.
The ruin of relationships fought for and lost stink the countryside
But a diffident, different perfume sullies the air...
Empirically memory is empiricism,
Nietzsche's snake coils itself and memory's nudity divulges a placard:
It just is.
My search for why ends in recollection
(Not because I'm satisfied but because empirically there is nothing more)
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What happened to the enduring lethargy of summer past...? -
A semblance of noble laziness that now seems ransacked by college and
time...
Like women, alcohol, city... simplicity dissipates into nothing beyond
memory
And I'm left in a familiar dilapidated Mexican restaurant holding
nothing beyond a menu and a fading past...
But somehow nostalgia spills meaning upon my drama.
Somehow life in rewind seems intimately right...
And as a familiar Latina waitress requests an answer
I order the same nauseating insanity as last summer.
Her recollecting smile scares the fuck out of me.
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