III
I
AM
A
LONE,
BUT
ME
MORIES.
"III, I" was first published in Memento, 1976; it was subsequently published on my website www.jerrycblanton.com, 2009. The persona can say hardly anything: his one true love has left him alone, taken the children and gone; all he has left are memories. The verticality and separation of words in this very simple poem present a starkness and disruption of a life torn apart by painful memories. "Mories" in the last line is reflective of the Latin word for death (mori), suggesting that the persona suffers many emotional deaths from each memory.
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