Warning: The author has noted that this contains the highest level of violence.
~ Just GØ Away ~
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As I was walking through the hall,
I spied a man not there at all.
He may not be again today —
I wish he'd simply go away.
His blank expression mocks me so,
begs me, "Listen!"— I still don't know
just what it is he wants to say...
Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
My holy, happy family,
entrenched in their hypocrisy,
will rue the day that I was born,
and curse the womb from which I'm torn.
Show them the error of their ways;
a goal that I've set for today.
Before lithe Luna rears her head
my mom and dad will both be dead.
It isn't me, you understand,
instead, this rather brutal man
insists it must be done this way —
while I just wish he'd go away.
His burning eyes and rancid breath,
his shadow lurking, stench of death,
they linger still, not far away —
Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
Insanity — my ardent plea,
for I am him, and he is me.
I spied him yet again today...
He simply will not go away.
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Author Notes
This poem was inspired by the work of Hughes Means, and his poem, "Antigonish" appears briefly in the film, "Identity".
"Antigonish" is an 1899 poem by American educator and poet Hughes Mearns. It is also known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There", and was a hit song under that title.
Inspired by reports of a ghost of a man roaming the stairs of a haunted house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, the poem was originally part of a play called The Psyco-ed which Mearns had written for an English class at Harvard University about 1899.
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