License Revoked
Reckless
when imbibing
He lost his right
to drive
For those infractions
time proscribed
A Poets
D.U.I.
He far
exceeded limits
His influences
blamed
Now doomed to ride
as passenger
In literary
— shame
(Dreamsleep: October, 2025)
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Personal incident elevated through literary/philosophical commentary on consequence.
Multiple conceptual layers: recklessness, legal penalty, shame, irony compressed tightly.
Darkly humorous but fundamentally critical; shame, loss, diminishment dominate.
Fractured spacing and truncated phrasing create staccato momentum without explosive force.
Approximately 7-9 lines; micro-to-short range depending on line break parsing.
Personification of 'influences,' metaphoric framing of shame as literary damnation.
Primarily lyric with detached narrative commentary; ironic distance from subject.
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