Really me
Summer rains,
torrential rains,
cold Autumn rains,
I love them all the same.
Because it was great
to splash in the gutters,
float my old black rubbers
like they were boats.
They could really float,
as did all my hopes,
down the gushing roadside rivers,
of whiskey-rain,
incoherent blunders,
and moments
of deep retching pain.
The floating of my aspirations
like they were boats,
that really could float.
I had to be real;
had to be really me.
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Submitted on August 23, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | aaabcddEfgdhdihjEfkl |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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