Villanelle

from I Will Not Support You In Being Alive by L. Mounts

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Sat down tonight to write a villanelle
But hadn't an idea of what to write
A simple way to escape from my hell

The sequence was a bit too hard to spell
As I stayed up all hours of the night
Sat down tonight to write a villanelle

I hadn't an idea of what to tell
The stories never seemed to come out right
A simple way to escape from my hell

This feeling I am knowing all too well
The signals on the screen are clear and bright
Sat down tonight to write a villanelle

Attempt to be an amateur Jacques Brél
But words they never seemed to reach the light
A simple way to escape from my hell

A story I would recite as I fell
And when I land I will not be all right
Sat down tonight to write a villanelle
A simple way to escape from my hell

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from I Will Not Support You In Being Alive, released December 3, 2013

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L. Mounts Chicago, Illinois

Singer of songs. Abstainer of substances. Bringer of plagues.

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