I have a penchant
For attracting
The downtrodden:
Out there, left field,
Broken down,
Almost homeless,
Burnt out,
Emotionally spent,
Down on their luck,
Broken hearted,
On the edge –
People struggling
with earth’s gravity.
And I have,
Over time,
Grown very
Fond of them.
R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English instructor. As a poet and novelist, he has been publishing his writing since 1972 in various literary magazines. His web page is https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com. He has published three books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic and Electronic Forecasts. In addition, he has published three novels. They are Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, and Seventh Sense. All these books are available both as ebooks and paperbacks at all publishers including Amazon, Apple Books and Barnes and Noble. He lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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