Fragment III
My requests are slimy with slurs
and self-adjusted semantics
Perplexing,
blurred,
and only half-romantic.
For our maturity while grown,
is now flung away and flown afar;
From spaces between stanzas
informal and apart.
Perhaps not a foreshadow
of elocutions
of any salacious nature.
Merely a Hemingwayian maneuver
borrowed in humble rambles.
Stumbling as I swipe letters.
Unfettered
by inhibition.
Silly and less subdued
of my own volition.
Fragment IV
Curiously
Furiously self-restrained
by sense;
To refrain from
ludicrous embarrassment
stemmed
from admissions
or omissions
of libidinous intent.
For lessons have been learned
from messages ill sent;
Under libational influence
or insouciance
for the consequence;
Returning to roost
in nests of hungover dawns
of stars and minds.
Finding naught
but awkward back steps;
Paced with regret.
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C.J. Lightbourn prefers to spend his time on this plane of existence in western Pennsylvania studying intellectual property law and writing poetry. When he isn’t working on his rubber band ball, that is.