The Boredom of Manuel Madera

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I longed, I do promise you, for a cool
To drag my cries away, for I am fool.
A kind fool, should I dare mention?
Perhaps, the ego deserves slight attention.

I cross paths with a sort of polite ache
And I feel dejected by the time I wake
With the ache clutching awful entrails
Passionately burning! Oh hear my wails!

Ennui, do caress me more softly!
I deserve your sympathy, ever so fondly.
Monstrous you might be at times, I know,
But there is eternal bliss for you to show.

Poetry loves the smoking words, the agony,
I do wonder why it delights over a malady.
The secret of it, however, is essential,
As boredom plays a part in the quintessential.

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