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issue_12_hostovsky Ambivalence
 
I hate this poem.
I love the beginning, though,
where it seems to be speaking
to a part of me that I don’t
understand, a part that hates
what it doesn’t understand--
that’s the part of this poem
that I love. And also how it
brings in the spider
only briefly, scurrying away--
I love how it does that,
though I hate spiders in
real life. But I like this spider.
Kind of the way I love
a good murder mystery,
though murder is abhorrent to me
in life. I don’t understand that,
do you? I mean how could we
love each other who practically
killed each other by the time
you finally scurried off? I don’t
get that, do you? But I don’t
hate you anymore. And I want
you to know that. In fact,
as much as I hate to admit it,
I sort of still love you in a way.
 
 
Paul Hostovsky is the author of seven books of poetry and six poetry chapbooks. His poems have won a Pushcart Prize and two Best of the Net awards. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and was a featured poet on the Georgia Poetry Circuit 2013. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter and a Braille instructor. Visit him at www.paulhostovsky.com
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