One True Love 14

V




I wish

         i hadn’t;

         or

         i wish

I wouldn’t remember.

"V, I wish" was first published in Memento, 1976.  This short free verse poem has its main emotional message in the margin-flush lines beginning with capital I's.  Embedded within and indented are lines beginning with small i's.  The implication is that the persona has some guilt or feels some shortcomings in allowing his or her one true love to escape.
 
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