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Old Romance

January 5, 2016
By 6mcanany GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
6mcanany GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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Old romance
Shaken by news from the past
Love, jealousy, insecurity.
Power.

Old romance,
Aging in one's presence.
You think: why on earth am I feeling these things now? Does it mean that I’ve lived a false life?

Old romance,
I think deep down I’m pretty much the same person I was when I was 23,” he says. “I was trying to write these characters as if they could have been 30. Their lives weren’t over.You can have the same intensity of feelings in your 70s as you could at seven,
the love simply vanishes one day

Hero?
No, just a character in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner—passionate, angry, wanting to change the world.
Old romance?
No, just an idea of things buried beneath the surface—from a dead body to repressed feelings
Shaken by news from the past
Love, jealousy, insecurity.
New romance.


The author's comments:

This is a found poem using a wall street journal article


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