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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Marc Darnell


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The tightened strings, the drunken bouts,
the fire fuming in savage rings–
these are the things he wrote about–
the tightened strings, the drunken bouts,
the jack-in-the-box that wouldn't come out.
These are anxiety's favorite things–
the tightened strings, the drunken bouts,
the fire fuming in savage rings.