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Pleasant Thoughts on a Weeknight

For the 'I Didn’t Say That Out Loud' Challenge

By Kendall Defoe Published about a year ago • 1 min read
Pleasant Thoughts on a Weeknight
Photo by Matthias Müllner on Unsplash

1.

The hate feels good:

father, work life, ambition...

Gifts for a writer?

*

2.

The night feels close:

life goes on (but what remains

with a screen's hot light?)

*

3.

The pain feels right:

routine of words, keyboard, thoughts;

routine of my hope.

*

4.

The lines feel done:

nothing left to give to you,

I find this last word.

Truth

*

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