Cover Your Mouth When You Don't Cough

Cover Your Mouth When You Don't Cough

A Poem by Pete
"

Life in us is like the water in a river. Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. - Thoreau

"
The Starry Night
Van Gogh's Starry Night.

meet me 'neath night's stars
coughing up lungs in the cold
selling but not sold



© 2024 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital." - Thoreau

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Tremendous work. I love Van Gogh. Well-crafted poem, Pete.

Posted 1 Year Ago

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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..