Trapped
Well and If day on day Follows, and weary year On year . . . and ever days and years . . . Well?
Adelaide Crapsey
Well and If day on day Follows, and weary year On year . . . and ever days and years . . . Well?
Adelaide Crapsey’s “Trapped” gives voice to a kind of quiet exhaustion that comes when time flattens into an endless, repeating loop. The speaker doesn’t cry out or rage—just looks at day following day, year following weary year, with no change in sight.
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