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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Boris Kokotov


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The Image

The image of a poet: young, intense,
staring at something visible only
to him, a pen in his hand...

In fact he is over fifty,
shabby, unshaved, with sad eyes,
quietly typing a verse

which he will read later
to a few friends and, possibly,
to his lover who would display

a forced attention that our poet
has learned to condone
along with her faked orgasms.