The Big Puzzle

by Scott Slemmons

Jumbled in bits and scattered in feeling

Ecstasies lost on the roadside through fear...or

Not another bludgeoning, not another night of this

infinite punishment--life as penitente for my own sins

Fuck! I can take pain! I am used to love's lash

Eternity is a small price to pay for the

realities of her memory, thus say I

Look at both sides of the sum

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