onsdag 17 augusti 2016

Cake

Cakes, 1963 
Wayne Thiebaud

Cake
Look, you
want it
you devour it
and then, then
good as it was
you realize
it wasn't
what you
exactly
wanted
what you
wanted
exactly was
wanting 
Noah Eli Gordon


About this poem
"Small as it is, this poem deals with the continually fleeting and bewildering conditions of desire, fulfillment, ambition, guilt and happiness. There's some ambiguity in the ending, which can be read as both the lack of a direction or the direction of that which is lacking. Sometimes poets get to have their cake and eat it too."
-Noah Eli Gordon 

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