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# Sonnet Station
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/sonnet-station/
- Published: 2023-01-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Announcer says: approaching Sonnet Station. My ears perk up. I'm going to Nantucket. The book is stillborn, midway through gestation. Nantucket being where one goes when fuck it.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Announcer says: approaching Sonnet Station.  
My ears perk up. I'm going to Nantucket.  
The book is stillborn, midway through gestation.  
Nantucket being where one goes when fuck it.

I chuckle at the thought of all the has-beens'  
debating whether dots must have two spaces.  
The dusty bookstores and their empty dust bins;  
the never-will-bes' in their coffee places.

What kind of town would call itself a "sonnet"?  
A poet colony? Is it contagious?  
Romantics seize your soul and feast upon it,  
and rhyme-a-dozens masquerade as sages?

Full stop. Doors open. Sky is grey with rain.  
I hesitate... then leave doubt on the train.