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Great Men

Brian Looney

Inside(the artist) kicking fits. A future so blank, barely planned—unplannable, in fact. A past so recent, the ink is barely dry, and all she has to show is promise, and I know I know I know it takes a loving touch, but lady love is all too flippant.

I am quick to anger, slow to rage.
I am tongue-in-cheek depressive.
I’m sporadically euphoric.
Do you know this hopeful brand of joy?
We artists are like porcelain dolls.
More delicate than great.

If great men refuse power,
if great men avoid it,
all the same,
great men reek of it,
because
great men wish for power to
be thrust on them, if only
to be tested, and also to
declare that,
from the start,
they never
wanted to
be great.

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