[New-Poetry] Backwards poetry

[TheOldMole]

*Soon*

Soon, all my stories
will be told backwards.
My ingénue will
find love in the first act.
Deflowered in the second,
by the third, she is writing
entries in her journal:
boys she identifies
with cryptic nicknames.

And I’ll learn too late
administrators
lie and deceive,
yet use this knowledge
for purposeful blackmail:
I’ve slept with their wives,
serially or in pairs,
winning their trust
with pears and figs.


David Graham wrote:
> For a classroom exercise, I'm looking for poems that reverse time. Not 
> ones that focus on memories, but ones that actually describe time 
> being reversed, like movies run backward, etc.
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> Got any favorites?
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> Thanking you in advance. . . .
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