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GUILT by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: GUILT IS MY ONE ATTACHMENT TO REALITY
Last Line: THAT TOO IS THE EXTENT OF MY FAULT
Subject(s): GUILT;
The bull lunges at you!
Run, do not look back,
your hands, your mind vacant
with fear!

You make a stand,
whirl, and with hands on hips
lean towards the bull's eyes.

The animal wavers, snorts
and slows to a trot,
shaking his horns from side to side.
Still at a distance,
he turns away
to nibble grass.

But mind moved by his jaws,
he charges blindly,
once more to feel your eyes,
and lowers his head to the grass
at your feet.



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