Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Foundku quartet: Gatsby Series #7

For a moment 
a phrase tried 
to take shape 
my mouth and 
my lips parted 
like a dumb man’s


So we beat on
boats against 
the current 
borne back 
Ceaselessly 
into the past


and his dream 
must have seemed 
so close that 
he could hardly 
fail to grasp it


“thirty,” I said. 
“I’m five years 
too old to 
lie to myself 
and call it honor.”



part of a continuing series of "foundku" based upon "The Great Gatsby"


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