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Poetry Drafts / 26 December 2022

Shirt and tie, bleached and ironed,
I wore respectability once; twice
I sought the band of gold,
both turned to lead; three times
three times I ran away
from everything, seeking every thing
missing, finding only the same
shirt and tie; stained and crinkled;
kissed by moths, and memories.

About The Author

Hayden Veil

In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.