Got a Light?

Got a Light?

A Poem by Pete
"

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Thoreau

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A man fiddling around with cigarette butts in the Theater District ...

The depressed mecca where I've currently been deposited without a passbook is at best alarming.
Spent beer cans, booze bottles, cigarettes, needles, condoms and smashed-dream lottery tickets litter the despondent streets.
Handwritten, cardboard signs plead lost causes.
Not only would they kill me for a cigarette here,
they'd want a light too ...



© 2020 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. However mean your life is, meet it and live it. " - Thoreau

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Added on April 12, 2020
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..