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# The Appointment
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-appointment/
- Published: 2022-02-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: wealth and power's final hours tend to focus on regret in that way they're much like ours fantasies of "miss me yet" what we'd give for but one second but one glimpse of future bliss rich or poor, can't miss the check...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

wealth and power's final hours  
tend to focus on regret  
in that way they're much like ours  
fantasies of "miss me yet"  
what we'd give for but one second  
but one glimpse of future bliss  
rich or poor, can't miss the check in  
bliss as fleeting as a kiss