What Am I Doing in Casablanca?: Collection One

By Amanda Wilson

Amanda Wilson calls this her art and literature in a poetic truce—“styled exclusively by you and what we’ve both been through.” Connect and vibe, let words come alive in a hundred pages or so. Who knows where you’ll go! Explore what she calls “real-life micro-poems and some unintentional rhyme”, as she journeys with you through time in her first collection of poetry, What Am I Doing in Casablanca?—an allegory of perfection-out-of-reach, Utopia desperately incomplete, and her tribute to “Something New”. In here, she dares you to find you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665515764

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/22/2021

ISBN: 978-1-6655-1577-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6655-1576-4 (e)

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CONTENTS

Introduction

1 If You Fall

2 Inspiration

3 Utopia

4 Subpar Poetry

5 Find Me

6 Wednesday Whitman

7 Can You Hear Me

8 To Make You Like Me

9 Purgatory

10 Feel the Mountain

11 Next Day Adventure

12 Words She’d Never Keep

13 Out of the Dark

14 It’s All Undone

15 Reality

16 Time Master

17 The Truth

18 Galaxy Crack

19 My Country Road

20 Don McLean Starry Night

21 Watcher of Dark Things

22 House of Mirrors

23 Absolutely Everywhere

24 The Pain Won’t Last

25 Move On Selfishly

26 Friday Dinner Date

27 Just Friends

28 Breaking Up

29 Roots

30 Snapshots

31 South Beach Vibes

32 Swept Away

33 Just Go

34 Just Isn’t Me

35 Tennessee Wisdom

36 Count Me In

37 No Super Mom

38 Nomad Roam

39 Fumes of Lost Time

40 Muse Hall Fall

41 Some Days

42 The On-Going Game

43 It’s Just You

44 Turn Around

45 Shape-Shifting Escapist

46 Too Much

47 Patterns

48 Nowhere Street

49 Loose Cannon Here

50 A Thought

51 Shades of Blue

52 It’s Messy

53 Sunsets

54 That West Virginia Night Sky

55 West Virginia Writing

56 Unclench

57 Faith

58 Falling

59 3:41

60 The Pack

61 Not a Man

62 The Hustle

63 Shadow of Doubt

64 I Am My Words Here

65 Without the Rain

66 Something New

67 Scheme of Me

68 Dreams

69 Didn’t Matter

70 The Lost and Found

71 The Letters

72 Obsolete

73 Certainty Uncertain

74 Uncertainty

75 The Lesson

76 Truth, Styled by You

77 Trust in the Feeling

78 Blank Page

79 Grandest Gesture

80 Echo of You

81 Hurry Up and Wait

82 Heaven-By-Design

83 Broken

84 Extraction Day

85 A World Gone Askew

86 Privilege

87 Apple in Peanut Butter Night

88 Stupid Ole Me

89 Warrior Art

90 Hope

91 Bet

92 Drink Before the Cheers

93 The Punchline

94 Love Like Never Before

95 The Façade

96 2 A.M. Musings

97 All the Bad Times We Simply Forgot

98 Proud

99 Creative Little Moments

100 Hard Getting Old

101 The Real Me

102 Big Bad Wolf

103 Trash

104 Finally Friggin’ Free

105 I Made You

106 Old Acoustic Mountain Heart

107 Find Her Peace

108 In You

109 He Couldn’t Withstand the Weight of the World

110 A Vision

111 What Am I Doing in Casablanca

112 The End of It All

To my past, present, and