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Drudgery and Boredom

allanbrunmier 1937 (Los Angeles)

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yonder comes the eastern sun
dragging me another day
no place to run
I guess I stay

someone has to work the soil
plant the cursed seed
endure the merciless broil
hoe the rampant weed

wish I were another man
not in this forsaken place
a heartless God devised this plan
probably die without a trace

I dream of a blue refreshing lake
a sunlit meadow vast
relief from this persistent ache
expunging memory of days past

but alas, there’s no escape
forever squalid in the dirt
clothed in this dusty drape
my body in tedious hurt

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Written on February 01, 2018

Submitted by aerrol24 on August 26, 2023

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Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 528
Words 101
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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allanbrunmier

Retired Air Force Contracting Officer and Division Chief and later a Finance Manager for Hughes Research Laboratories (Later known as HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California). Degree (Major English, Minor Philosophy). Masters in Business Administration. Former expert in Government Contracts and Government Accounting. Circumstances were that in my twenties I gave up ambition to write shortly after military service. Started writing again in my 70's when I wrote elegy for a friend Gary Schaffer who tragically died at the young age of 48. more…

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