Romanticism Is Dead

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    I wrote this after my prom. My date and girlfriend of a few months had ignored me all night, and I managed to dance through only a portion of a song with her. It was superbly disappointing.

    Romanticism Is Dead
    Romantic notions tread upon
    By dancing feet not my own.
    Now that the night has gone,
    And I lie here feeling so alone,
    It hurts to think back and see
    What I wanted was unlike
    What actually came to be.
    The realization was a spike
    Of a quite depressing thought,
    And I guess I should have been
    Ready to lose what I sought,
    But such an idea was unseen.
    So damn you, precious optimism,
    For leaving me disappointed.
    And damn you too, romanticism,
    For making me hope.

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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