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Shadow

I have never been particularly fussy—a glass of tap water and a piece
of contemporary drama would be enough to nourish the body and soul
of my own creation. So, spoiled by all the words I read by the dim light
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 12/12/202212/12/2022 1 Minute

It is what it is

A man’s whole life in a single stanza—what would that be? An arbitrary anecdote
with a half-baked punchline over a pint of lager that dared to turn into a good work
of fiction in the attic of a morgue? Perhaps. But this would imply that it is possible
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 30/11/2022 1 Minute

By the way

We are going to die. Yes, and we will die in a well-covered silence that changes
nothing—see visitors’ beds, which count the strenuous hours of uneventful sleep
with the precision of borrowed time—a performance reluctantly paid in advance
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 28/11/2022 1 Minute

A night train

I had my chance for a happy life, or at least for a meaningful one,
and now all that’s left is an artificially prolonged apathetic wait
for a prompter to cue from behind the limelights my final line.
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 20/10/2022 1 Minute

A brief reflection on the meaning of life over a pint of lager

A saddle-goose once saw death’s head upon a mop-stick weeping.
“What is the matter, my gaunt bud?” he asked, since tears were dripping,
but what could be said at the sound of a bell beyond the timeless
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 17/10/2022 1 Minute

The peripheries

I was never really fond of yellow, not until I met Miss Georgia Lass.
Two seasons later, only a hint of metaphysical indiscretion remained
unpraught in the canary shade. And just like that, the realisation came
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 13/10/2022 1 Minute

Passing away

As worn out as a shellac record
and just as brittle, I’ve got my mug shot
stamped in a book of wraiths.
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 22/09/2022 1 Minute

I’m not a bad person

Life insurance covers the event of death, but what insures me
in the event of life? So far, I keep my hands above the table,
even though most of the time I have no idea what to do with them.
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 01/09/202201/09/2022 1 Minute

an elegy on the death of a decent middle-aged man

you know that you have lost when you come to a singles’ night out
and there are more than twice as many men as women, the latter
being either your daughter’s or your mother’s age. ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry 4 Comments 11/10/2021 1 Minute

the dying flame does not sleep at night

night intervals measured by dreams
and physiology bring the brevity
of fate, this ironic courtesan, ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry Leave a comment 09/10/2021 1 Minute

nine-eleven

first, nineteen men killed two thousand
nine hundred and seventy-seven people.
then the “war on terror” began, which has ...
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Maciej Modzelewski English poetry, poetry 2 Comments 11/09/2021 1 Minute

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