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By Justin Cude

It isn’t lonely,

for I have been there before.

Its absence,

nothing more.


Pair this short read with ‘The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone‘, brought to you by Maria Popova’s brainpickings.

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This entry was posted in A Poem to Share, CityReads NYC, My Writing and tagged A Poem to Share, Absence, Loneliness, Poetry on November 27, 2017 by Justin Cude.

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