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# Rosebud
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/rosebud/
- Published: 2023-04-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: What is, then, the right measure of a life? The accolades, the spectacles, the trophies? A sports car, a chalet, a trophy wife? Your coffee made just right, a corner office?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

What is, then, the right measure of a life?  
The accolades, the spectacles, the trophies?  
A sports car, a chalet, a trophy wife?  
Your coffee made just right, a corner office?

The users, the kiss asses and their ilk?  
The hangers on, the parasites, the leeches?  
That coffee, made with milk that isn't milk?  
The ne'er-do-wells with elevator pitches?

If truth be told, you've lost count long ago;  
take comfort in clichés and games of inches.  
Damned coffee's overpriced, and just so, so.  
You're trying not to notice the wife's flinches.

Up on the wall, a moose head, sad and lonely.  
Back then you thought it'd be enough. If only.