A world poetry collection. Editor in chief: Agron Shele, deputy editor in chief: (a.o.) Hannie Rouweler.
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Roger Nupie’s contribution:
ALL-CONSUMING
from a series of poems with samples from Bret Easton Ellis’ “The Shards”
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We were young, alive & strong,
we looked rugged & masculine &
the next moment sensitive &
almost boyish. Our odds
looked good & nothing
could hurt us. We did not
want to be torn from the
golden dome of adolescence
we resided under.
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The weekend, lavish &
decadent, spent swimming
in the Roman Pool,
Beluga Caviar & Dom Pérignon
at sunset, a daily
schedule based on sex,
having no idea what was
happening in the real world &
who was watching us.
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Sometimes, when I dream
about him, he’s a different person
I meet up with in a deserted motel room.
Sometimes he looks like someone else.
Sometimes older, but mostly young.
Staring at me fixed in that moment
of his teenage beauty. A place
where he would always reside.
He will never age.
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