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No Clues<\/span><\/p>\n by Charlie Brice\n<\/p>\n At 68 you dream You crack Someone doesn\u2019t like your poems Time is both savior and executioner<\/p>\n You live long enough You want to grow into yourself Life is a crossword puzzle spells p e a c e ###<\/p>\n Charlie Brice is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author ofFlashcuts Out of Chaos<\/i>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0Mnemosyne\u2019s Hand<\/i>\u00a0(2018), and\u00a0An Accident of Blood<\/i>\u00a0(forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions.\u00a0<\/span>His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in\u00a0The Atlanta Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Paterson Literary Review<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i>and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Charlie Brice is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author ofFlashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne\u2019s Hand (2018), and An Accident of Blood (forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-truth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat you are flunking math
\nwill never graduate from college
\nawake a total failure
\nit takes twenty minutes to remember
\nthat you have a Ph.D.
\na successful career<\/p>\n
\nyou break
\nparts chip off
\nyou strive to be better
\nrarely succeed<\/p>\n
\nsomeone does
\nmost are indifferent
\nthe chip is on your shoulder<\/p>\n
\nto have something to say
\nbut not long enough
\nto say it fully<\/p>\n
\nbut aren\u2019t sure what that means
\nyou resist common conformity
\nbut want to be loved and admired<\/p>\n
\nwith no clues
\nyou fill in the blanks
\nand hope that
\nwhat goes down and across
\nintersects<\/p>\n
\n e
\n a
\n c
\n e<\/p>\n