Many Times Bitten, Forever Shy

Many Times Bitten, Forever Shy

A Poem by Pete
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. - Thoreau

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Image result for spider in a web in house

Step inside my abandoned head.
Peek into my cob-webbed soul.
Don't worry 'bout the poisonous spiders.
Pay them no mind.
No.
Just brush them aside.

Pull a loose, silken thread on the hoodie of my heart and watch me unravel.
I've swallowed so much over the years that I have indigestion.
See my mind explode
and the dusty, cluttered attic of my pain vomit ...
... like Halley's combustible comet ...


I like the intro (first 47 seconds) and especially the ending (5:00 - end) of this song.

© 2020 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
“Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.” - Thoreau

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Added on February 20, 2020
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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