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This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Making New Friends (or lack thereof)

Even with the target picked out,
I do not know how to, metaphorically,
pull the trigger, to just do it,
step up, say- hi, my name is...
What is the secret, the hidden gem,
the talent, no gusto, to just- smile.
Hi.
I think you are fascinating.
The way you do what you do,
say the things the way you say,
you look- like someone interesting.
Hi.
Can we hang out sometime, be friends.
Am I going about this the wrong way,
the way of the wrong kind, what kind.
Who am I, do you find what I have
to be interesting, to be worth your time.
Am I quiet strange a little weird just a little off.
Hi.
Can we- just sit and talk and be chill.
What do you do with whom and when.
Can I come, can I ask, can I do that, too.

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