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The poetic city: “Far Happier Than I Ought to Be”

Apr 18, 2022 • Creative Writing
“Far Happier Than I Ought To Be ”         
 
When I think about all the books I will never read, 
all the places I will never see, and all the poems 
I will never write, I wonder if I am far happier
than I ought to be.  
 
Yet, I glory in the impossibility of doing it all.
 
Freed from the eternal pursuit of the happiest moment,
I can concentrate all my efforts on what lies before me, 
secure in the knowledge that every particular 
encompasses the whole.
 
Reece Burka
1/13/2016
 
 
 

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