semantikon feature literature
May 2006
Blue Collar Dispatches
Stephen Foster
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Once I Thought Living A Lost Art

Man never was
and is not meant to be
satisfied—

that it why
the Gods we created
war

that is why you’re feeling
irritable and
empty
in this iron sheet of night

that is why I’m sitting
still
in this strange room
with arrows pointing
every which way—

ultimately,
they cancel each other out.

They always have.
They always will.