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someone told me last week , forgiveness was not something you learn but a gift?

Written in 2004
With thoughts of those I knew who felt the need to cut.

Written in 1999 or 2000

The astute reader will recognize, in the titling names, the implications of a roman a clef.

For deeply personal reasons, and to write of one who has injured someone very, incredibly very, dear to me, I have added a reference to George Gordon, "Lord" Byron to the poem. Some scholar suggest that Polidori modeled his vampire on Byron; and that Stoker modeled his vampire on Polidori's. Byron is at the bottom of this cesspool of characters, as the man he represents, in this poem, is a dweller in cesspools---a man who casually injures the Beauty to whom I tacitly refer.