Stephen Crane Needs A Hug....

Remind me NOT to take my book of Stephen Crane poems on my next picnic....


Crane seemed to me to have a stark, depressing outlook in the majority of his poems. (by majority, I mean all of them.)




Here are a few poems I wrote in the style of Crane. 
One of them is a parody, guess which one...


#1
Alone in this darkness
I asked myself the meaning
of this life?
And I answered with
no regret, for my 
heart was empty.


#2
I followed a road to no where, and
saw a man, shirtless and begging,
"should I stop?"
The man was smiling, content
What a fool.




#3
Ghostly figures arose in shadow
There was hollow and hollow of heart and soul,
and sigh and sigh of pain and tremble,
vigorous pleas and loss of desire,
In the hour before the light,
he took back the night.


#4
A man said to his shrink,
"Sir, am I crazy?"
"Truthfully?" replied the shrink.
"Don't answer that!
My times up."