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Peter Munro: “Higher Calling”

August 19, 2019 by PBQ Leave a Comment

HIGHER CALLING

These days my job distracts me from my work.
Don’t get me wrong. I do like getting paid
a few bucks for board and bed, some small perks,
perhaps a book, perhaps a wife to trade

resentment for resentment. See? I’ve strayed
from my point, which is my point: my life
distracts me from my purpose. Getting laid,
raising kids, being brave to love my wife

in a landscape I have seeded till rife
with landmines, and telling a pissed-off boss
whose intellect is like a carving knife
that his equations are leading to loss

make me feel too tired and old to make time
for whatever height it was I was to climb.

Filed Under: Issue 99, Poetry 99

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