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An Answer From No One

by Mike McGonegal


Participle vomit
And crowds don’t mix
It’s a myth
The scarved and handsome stubbled
Entertaining perfect wit
Nothing verbal split
Ladies reeling

Less than many
Borrowed monies
Lies the truly English shaven man
To no one he babbles
And he or she replies
Or doesn’t as only
A plural subject can

An answer from no one
Most often a yes
Understood as a guess
The echo of silence
Half empty a colon
The lack of that man looms forever
Annoying and clever alive



Copyright © 2011 by Mike McGonegal

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