Adam Fieled (Logan Square, Philadelphia, USA): "Run Away with Me"
I was thinking as I listened to her about Byron’s relentless nihilism
that only found out in intoxication any kind of remedy for the things
she was telling me about— abortions, abortive affairs, and how no I won’t go
home with you and how Byron alone among the Romantics dealt
overtly with sex not just love like Shelley or fantasy like Keats or
like Wordsworth the dull sheep
(say Blake put the raunch to sleep)
and all the blokes in the bar were staring at green eyes red hair
bust you know the kind that blokes will stare at and I thought Byron
really caught something a seed a kernel of what Nietzsche ran away
with I said please run away with me and she laughed looked down
into her beer and was finished
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