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The Gnome of Nothingness
A love poem by Steven Wallace
Written on January 4th, 2003

Ouch! I'm hit!
Something has kicked me!
Looking down I see a little gnome.
Oh devilish fiend! Away with thee!

What is this? What has come over me?
I... I can... I cannot think!
Oh evil one, be gone!
The Gnome of Nothingness has kicked me!

It's all clear. I cannot see.
My mind is a vast wasteland.
Thoughts have shriveled up like raisins!
Ideas have vanished into thin air!

He is gone, but the effects remain.
My hopes -- my dreams do not sustain!
What have you done to me?!
What have you done to my head?!

 

Poem (c) Copyright 2003 Steven Wallace.