A Man's Vision Of The World

I got a brand new copy in a box from Amazon today - Joshua Marker’s A Man’s Vision of the World! From the back:

“This book of poetry. . . is the combination of torn and put away pages from a time when all hope was lost. It’s my vision of the world, corrupted and beautiful. It’s about the time when I had come to understand that life just wasn’t so easy, looking at it face to face and from the sidelines as well. . . A riddled world of faults, lies, deception and lost horizons.”

If the title - which sounds like something you might find on a card table at the back of a Promise Keepers rally - doesn’t tip you off, perhaps the lack of serial commas will.

No. No, no. A thousand times no, and if you thought it for even a moment after reading that back cover, please just stop sending me Christmas cards. No, no, no.

From the section “Lost Search”

Chance

Taking a deep breath
I dive into a world,
A place called love.
Will I drown or swim with the greatest of ease?
That’s a chance I have to take.

or, Unconscious, from “Windless Mind”

Inner thoughts
Running endlessly into oblivion.
The dark rushing upon
The fields of white.
Taking control of desires, emotions.
I now realize the truth behind
The light at
The end of the tunnel.