{"id":2031,"date":"2013-10-25T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2017-07-11T22:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:43:43","slug":"empty-husks-bryan-pender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/empty-husks-bryan-pender\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Husks by Bryan Pender"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pender\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

Empty Husks<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Bryan Pender<\/p>\n

wandering aimlessly amongst hollow<\/p>\n

buildings, encasements in which to gather and
\npretend that we are, any of us, of
\nany interest at all.<\/p>\n

Long ago we abandoned what worth
\nthere was,
\nthe little substance that was ours.
\nNow just carbon copies
\nall done a million times before, to be done
\na million times more.<\/p>\n

Sounds and gestures repeated
\nover and again, ceaselessly. Each,
\nour own little contribution to the cold, robotic toil
\ndaily
\nthat forms these excuses
\nfor lives.<\/p>\n

Indelibly moving forward
\nbeing pulled and pulling along others
\nin our wake
\ndragging them
\nso we\u2019re not alone, the irrefutable drag
\nof mass, the crowd as its own person,
\nconsciousness,
\nmonster that we create.<\/p>\n

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\nBryan Pender is a writer of absolutely no repute or bearing whatsoever who was born in Midland, Ontario, Canada. Currently he resides in Toronto, Ontario, where he graduated with a B.A. in History from York University. Bryan has traveled extensively to such places as New York, Paris, London, Rome and Athens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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