Companion poem from chapter 2 of the R.M. Dolin novel, "What Is to Be Done"
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The madness of May presses
against the soul with the very veracity
Santa Anna's use to push the past
into a pretext for right now.
Wind whispers warnings
laced with remnants of memories
we simultaneously treasure
yet hope to forget.
As signs and signals coalesce,
you vow to not make
the same mistakes
again,
but what is to be done
when all anyone can know
is something ominous is about to happen.
From the R.M. Dolin novel, “What Is to Be Done.” Jake finishes his bike ride and goes to the Al Azar an hour before poker starts to talk with Armando about this ill-fated feeling he has; something ominous is about to happen, Jake doesn’t know what but knows it’s not going to end well.
