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Ennui
Great Expectations? No more.
Even those cut to size
fail to materialize.
Leftovers of yesterday's hope
you heat up again and again
on the low burner,
watching how the pale-blue fire
barely catches its breath.
You're choking...
unable to swallow the fruit
of forbidden desire.
Chained to daily tasks,
a prisoner of minutes filled with minutiae,
you're held accountable
for each and every lousy act,
even ever-so-slight
an oversight-
The only one off the hook
is the telephone -
Previously Published in Voices Israel 2000 Vol. 27
Rena Lee is the penname of Rena Kofman poet and writer, a retired Professor
of Hebrew from the City University of NewYork, and the author of eleven books in Hebrew.
Her work appeared (in both Hebrew and English) in many magazines, anthologies, scholarly
journals, etc For more details, listings, awards, reviews of her writings and samples thereof,
please visit her internet site Rena Lee Web
Email: Rena Lee
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