The cat eyes
Rasmus Berggren 2002 (Linkoping)
I met this man
I met this man in a street corner
In a street corner, filled with boxes and a retching smell
A retching smell of rotten fish and spoiled milk
The cats loved it
I guess that was why the man staid there
I never understood it
But we looked at each other
His was blue, and I knew that once upon a time, they had been clear
Now they were no more than foggy window, into an emptiness
He might have not comprehended it
What does a man like that see when he stares into my eyes
Is the neurons even firing, is the occipital lobe even lighting up when he looks ?
I never knew, but he stared at me when I walked by, and his cats too
With their bright eyes
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Submitted by Rasmus.berggren on August 20, 2021
Modified by Rasmus.berggren on August 27, 2021
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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