Eyes For Me, Not Thee

By Tony Colatruglio

Imagine a creature with complete mastery over himself...at least in his mind. Naught said about him is mere flattery, he says, and he’s certainly one of a kind. Read his memoirs, if you will, and see his vanity spill and spill and spill. Is it honesty or mere peacock pride? You decide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tony Colatruglio
• Release date: Aug 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005020101

Tony Colatruglio

So much to say, so little the time; but live fictive worlds in winged rhymes.

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Eyes For Me, Not Thee: A Poem

By

Tony Colatruglio

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Ah, dearest loyal readers and newcomers from near and afar,

as I pen this missive, this epistle, this tract, with my very own quill

(oh, how apropos and ironic is the thrill of spilling your own vanity via your own exquisite means)

to think, at last—at last—

in pulchritude,

in attitude,

in fortitude,

in rectitude,

(never turpitude),

but in magnitude,

yes, certainly in magnificent magnitude,

I have achieved critical mass,

at an apt, prideful point wherein my beauty reigns triumphant,

and I must begin my very own memoirs while the memories, ever eventful, praiseworthy, and laudable (you may applaud now if you wish),

still percolate and resound and resonate and the feathers still hang with precision and before that dreaded final curtain falls on the show.

To no end how I relish—nay, cherish—feathering my very own nest

with the knowledge, the conviction, the sheer sagacity that I alone above all creatures and man stand loftily above the rest in accomplishment and appearance;

for so nobly, so richly built, of a