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Part 3 of 1am genloser poetry by glo
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2025-04-13
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The Hero's Lament

Summary:

Dear Audience,
The last of myself
I may ever bear witness to
Bled out in the arms of a
Character I played

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Nearly two years after the fantastic conclusion of the Generation Loss web series, a newly created Tumblr account claiming to be 'The Hero' posts this free-verse poetry, titled 'The Hero's Lament'.
Barely twelve people see it.
It's taken down the next day.

Or, even more 1am genloss poetry! At this point I should just make it a series.

Notes:

This is completely unedited word barf from last night at 1am.

Inspired by Ani Difranco's music and whitecollarcannibal's West Oneida Quarterly series

Work Text:

I see the blood in your veins

As you look me in the eye

Metaphorically, because you don't

Have eyes,

Or theoretically, because you don't exist?

Nineteen years and I still

Find myself clawing

At that gray patch of sky

Six feet above

Nineteen years, and all my blood

Beats perfectly in sync with yours

Programmed, metric

The heart of the company

Nineteen years,

And the stains of ink blotting

Lines and stanzas on my page

Feel too much to bear

Like birds in the wind

Tumbleweeds

Like the maltodextrin nightmare

Bleeding from the scrape on my knee

Like the words I didn't say

Couldn't say

Dear Audience,

The last of myself

I may ever bear witness to

Bled out in the arms of a

Character I played

 

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