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Quick Fix

Robin Loving

March 23 
Limerick
While you were hiding, time didn't stand still
And you can't get it back with a drink or a pill
Quick fixes will only help dull the pain
Quick fixes are needed again and again

Before you know it, you've run out of time
Here's one more pill, and a bottle of wine
You can't fool time, with gimmicks or tricks
But you do have time, for one last quick fix.

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I've seen this happen more than once.

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Written on March 16, 2023

Submitted by lovingempath on March 16, 2023

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXX XXBB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 353
Words 72
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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Robin Loving

Sometimes the words flow like a murder of crows. They've held my secrets for the past 65-years. And sometimes they repeat them back to me, and laugh. more…

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