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Unharmed

December 15, 2009
By JackJules SILVER, Los Angeles, California
JackJules SILVER, Los Angeles, California
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Favorite Quote:
"I have a very pessimistic view of life. You should know this about me if we're gonna go out. You know, I - I feel that life is - is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. Those are the two categories, you know. The - the horrible would be like, um, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else. That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life - you should be thankful that you're miserable because you're very lucky to be miserable."


Who struck me down
I did not
Know.

His brutish hand drawing nearer to me
I could not
Feel.
I did not
See.

He came ever closer to me,
But I inhaled a peaceful and lightly perfumed
Summer day, and
I did not
Smell his
Sweat drenched fist
Hurtling through the delightful mist of
The odiferous summer air.

If I had been alarmed,
If I had only
Known,
Felt,
Seen,
Or Smelled,
Would I have walked away

Unharmed?


The author's comments:
The poem is an experimentation in syntax, or the composition of words

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