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My Sadness Is Like a Wes Anderson Movie By Stevie Green

Prone to bouts of ennui that cover hours at a time, if I’m lucky.

I know what I’m grieving but I won’t make a scene about it

but I will get myself into a caper because every grown man will at some point in his stupid

little life. A boy’s game that never changes

in the pursuance of remaining young at heart

in the name of hanging on to what was once had.

The steady, symmetrical shows only allow what I want you to see.

The humour is meant to keep you out of the loop.

The beauty of it all, intentional too. It’s all I’ve been able to build to ensure you don’t take

your eyes off me

while I sit in the quiet dignity

of my own melancholy.

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