Letters, poem by Evan Jones

      Now I stop writing poems
      you can throw your gold ring in the sea
      where it will rest beside a skull in the sand
      and all the sunken ships will rise from the foam
      with the captain breathing
      and the sailors grinning

      I said now I stop writing poems

      and from a window of my familial home
      my father and mother
      wave handkerchiefs and salute

      they can’t read poems anyway
      having forgotten how
      they think k is a and d is e

      and you can lie to me
      deceive me in this land of the laughing red skull
      but for this reason I’ll cheat you
      and you will believe me

      the curse of the seven shadows upon you

      I will always write poems


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