this what that I hear
this bleating of sheep, this meh
why are they still near

Crutches are ok
but they're not forever things
except when they are

I don't clean my room
I can be more positive
Too much doom and gloom

*

It's like Groundhog Day
Because I've lived this before
and to you it's new

*

Nothing but the words
nothing but the words seem right
so neither do they

We are all fragments
of families, like Josef
and we all have dreams

** 1178 - 1181

A poem's line breaks
make the lines into cages
holding the meaning

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Delmore Schwartz wrote that
it's the ego that's ALWAYS
in the driver's seat

Yes, my loneliness
I let you drive too often
Time I take the wheel

It's almost one year
and yet the grief for my dad
is still at the wheel