![]() A Hollow ManA Poem by Robert Trakofler![]() about a year ago a friend published an essay on Mr. T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" It bounced around my brain and eventually came out of me in these words...![]() A Hollow Man
Smoke curls along the lenses of my fancy protective blue light spectacles As I take another drag of my
cigarette and a sip of my coffee a strained exhale coalesces smoke in front of my monitor glancing the blank screen of my 5 am mind Generally, my first cup is spent Staring at the blank page by the second my synapses are starting to assemble into something resembling an inkblot of twisted letters and behind me standing in the desert Mr. Eliot is reciting “The Hollow Men” his words resonate with a tear in the corner of my eye or was it just eye strain all I can think about is what could I possibly have to say to a scarecrow that he doesn’t already know? And despite the toxicity; of inhaling smoke, caffeine and Mr. Eliot’s words contributing to my macular degeneration in striking my own lines I wonder if I too am a hollow man scribbling prayers on ethereal stationery and placing them under desert rocks there is a cowardice to composition in the displaced ownership of character or in the folly of observation from a detached witness or retina many details are overlooked or skewed by the myopic reflections of a damaged lense like those doughboys standing in the trenches in the war to end all wars stuffed with the rhetoric of righteous aim waiting for the next call to arms against an invisible foe but never climbing the wall to engage the enemy but instead mulling about in arguments of indignation till the trench rot of moral decrepitude overtakes the fibers of their existence
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