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By Charles Brooks III
 
 

 
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
 
“A Man Said to the Universe”
-Stephen Crane
 
 
…
 
Hear my problem,
Old Man:
I wear the world,
anguished by its lacking.
 
I write.
I write so others
might wail as well.
 
They don’t.
I do.
 
That’s the problem.