Icarus Redux

21 Jun 2021

·Jaybird

Say hey, Icarus, what’s your claim to fame? You flew too high, too close to the sun, and for this you made your name? A mere miller you are, a reality star, you got singed by the flame ‘cause you soared too far. And now, earthbound, we heed you, try to exceed you, but no one remembers our name. Some role model you are, fly as high as we can, kiss the sun, nobody gives a damn as we plummet to earth a burned out shell headed for hell, and you remain the man.

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Jaybird

I am retired, having worked primarily as a librarian, but have done freelance proofreading, copy editing, and book reviewing. I wrote some poetry many years ago, but decided it was bad and stopped, since I had other things to do. For the last ten...

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