{"id":14299,"date":"2012-10-18T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=14299"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:31:54","slug":"loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/10\/18\/loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Loneliness
\n<\/em><\/strong>by James McLean<\/em><\/p>\n

Little tea cup, were you happy on the shelf?<\/p>\n

Now a thousand pieces on the floor<\/p>\n

little tea cup, please forgive me<\/p>\n

thousand pieces now forget me.<\/p>\n

Time goes slowly–<\/p>\n

This new tea cup a thing of beauty I declare<\/p>\n

with joy both fleeting and rare. Now lonely<\/p>\n

as a tea cup needing tea I\u2019ll\u00a0brew<\/p>\n

some tea for us to pass time, gaze<\/p>\n

while you\u00a0whisper<\/p>\n

I have not always been a tea cup.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomorrow again I\u2019ll fill the cup<\/p>\n

that clears past regrets or future fears<\/p>\n

Teacup, say come with me<\/em>. I am old<\/p>\n

and wiser, have one thing certain \u2014<\/p>\n

how time evaporates.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

James McLean<\/strong> was born in Scotland in 1927 and has lived and worked in the DTES since 1960. He is a member of Thursdays Writing Collective and has published in four chapbooks as well as in V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside<\/a> (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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