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THE SPEED TRAP OF HOPE -by guest author- Rp Verlaine

Updated: Oct 19, 2023



There are

maps of our choosing

with a finite indifference

to logic traversed

too often despite

knowing ruin

awaits…


This is where the

monkey screams

above the tiger's roar.


Where the dive

not the broken landing

bequeaths victory.


Where the swords

wound deep to

the same sad laughter.


Of an outcome

predetermined as

a drum major's echo.


The chloroform

in color of a

morphine drip.


Chasing love using

failed routes from

torn maps of chance.


Being dropped whole

to the speedtarp of hope

with no exit signs.


Blindfold removed

to traffics from all sides

ambulances in motion.






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The Speed Trap of Hope

by Rp Verlaine



Rp Verlaine lives in New York City.

He has an MFA in creative writing from City College.

He taught in New York Public Schools for many years.

His first volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames

& Drinking was published in 2017, and another – Femme Fatales

Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018. A set of three e-books

titled Lies From The Autobiography vol 1-3 were published from

2018 to 2020. His newest book, Imagined Indecencies,

was published in February 2022. He was nominated for a

Pushcart prize in poetry in 2021 and 2022.






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