Just one, because I hate myself.

[Waldo]

One moment
That’s all I had left
I stood before my front door
But it wasn’t really mine
I mean, I was renting it,
But even my landlord didn’t own it

When he died it would get passed on to someone else
He didn’t get to keep it, it wasn’t his
But you don’t get to keep anything when you die
Your memories rot in the ground, held there by your brain
Held there by your skull
Held there by muscles and skin
While whatever is left of ‘you’ after you die
Rots or dissipates or joins some choir or mucks about in pig shit

I opened my door and didn’t have time to register death
Just a light
I guess the light could have been death
Could have been a bomb or a gun
Or even Death himself
Maybe it was just my landlord
Pissed off because I missed last months rent

Well, I didn’t miss it, but I’d guess he did
I think I spent it well
I spent my last months rent on something I wanted
Rather than slaving away and giving it to the landlord
I guess I died happy
I didn’t know I died for a long time though
That’s the worst part, never knowing for sure

Only thing I know is that I spent a month enjoying a painting I’d never seen before.
I’m just kidding. I spent the rent on a new TV and stereo. But it was a great TV.

[Diva]

I read this and all I could say was... Wow.

Beautiful, meloncholy. Deep. I hope you write more.

[Amaurote]

Very impressive, Waldo: it reminds me a little of Sandbach's paraphrasal of Stoicism, "Nothing belongs unless it cannot be taken away."

Welcome to the board: I admire your posts on Akpcep, and, in my vainest, most egocentric moments, I like to imagine that your occasional IRC suffix, AFK, is a moving tribute to my hero, Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky. Someone tells me that it's actually an abbreviation for "Away From Keyboard", but I refuse to listen.

It's good to see you posting here; long may you reign, and continue writing poetry like this.

[berly]

I have never spent any effort in reading poetry before I found the other site *avoids slap of authority from Diva* and NoChickTrix. That was because before that, it all seemed unrelateable to me.

All of the work posted here is just wonderful! I can now say that I have read and actually enjoyed some poetry. I like it. Please keep posting, ALL OF YOU.