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Abridged Life Story

ALLAN LAKE

Photo by Jose G. Ortega Castro | From Unsplash

While in the process
of drowning was able
to grab hold of a small
boat wherein pleasant
rowers believed canoe
was a great ark, able
to save all. Big call.
I won’t deny it did
save me but staying
aboard would have
only then prolonged
breath by delusion
in a world where
death comes for
all so – having
things to do before
that event – said,
Farewell friends!
as we made land
where certain
stones are
becoming
sand
.

Allan Lake

Allan Lake, originally from Canada, has lived in Saskatoon, Cape Breton Island, Ibiza, Tasmania, Western Australia and Melbourne. His latest chapbook of poems, “My Photos of Sicily”, was published by Ginninderra Press. Such journals as The Hong Kong Review, The American Writers Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, The Antigonish Review, New Philosopher and Fabians Review have published him.

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