Write a duplex

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An example from American Poetry Review – Poems

Jericho Brown

Duplex (I begin with love)

I begin with love, hoping to end there.

I don’t want to leave a messy corpse.

 

       I don’t want to leave a messy corpse

       Full of medicines that turn in the sun.

 

Some of my medicines turn in the sun.

Some of us don’t need hell to be good.

 

       Those who need least, need hell to be good.

       What are the symptoms of *your* sickness?

 

Here is one symptom of my sickness:

Men who love me are men who miss me.

 

       Men who leave me are men who miss me

       In the dream where I am an island.

 

In the dream where I am an island,

I grow green with hope.  I’d like to end there.

Oh, I see @judytuna has included a couple more, and how to mark them up in markdown at Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown's "Invention" (poems and analysis). :slight_smile: