Mark DeCarteret


Sartre in the key of

seeing is not really
nor does imagining it
bring you one note closer 

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delightful as it might
sound to the mind
or unsightly to the ears

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easy as it is on 
the eyes do not seem  
to have another one in them

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effects resounding more
like the last listen though less so 
when rounded off to the nearest

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genius to tell you
to let go of the controls
autotune into the lost soul of

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another familiar ringtone 
all we’d originally thought sung
w/the originality wrung out of it

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believing us to ourselves
that little something we
like to call nothingness

Mark DeCarteret's poems have recently appeared or are due to appear in The American Poetry Review, Hole in the Head Review, Guesthouse, and Plume.

 
 

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