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.Georgetown poet eyes international audience By Oksana Buhel erary career by keeping his nose to the grindstone, his pen ‘on paper and his eyes open. The 25-year-old saw an advertised contest in is Pennysaver newspaper i January and submitted his poem - “The Drunk, ‘There he sits all alone The bridge has become his home And the bottle his soulmate. He ys nothing, but his eyes with fervour Inside his spirit are many stories His eyes tell of the pain in his heart And of the horrors he has seen. His eyes are a fading blue, his hair, long and unkempt. His clothes are tattered and his face is worm He has been there for a long time He trusts no one, and no longer cares f When he withers away, no one will remember him For he has no family and no friends. Hate has replaced love And vengeance, compassion He has no one to live for, but himself. Roberto is not sure what motivated him to write the poem. “I was probably blue at the time,” he guessed. The poem was publi A Break in the Clouds, a page anthology of poems, all Carlos Roberto gathered from contests, com- piled by the National Library of Poetry in Maryland, U.S.A. Roberto has been writing poems “as long as (he) can remem east 10 le said ideas just pop into his head, and he writes them down immediately. “It doesn’t always. work, "he admitted, doe to write are in bed and at the library. While at. the library, Roberto makes use of the var- ious reference books which list publish Halton Hills This Week, Saturday, October 16, , 1993 - Page 17 ARTHUR F. JOHNSON LTD., REALTOR 877-5165 ‘tor. 874-3040 kes. (519) 833-9578 laundry, basemen tdyaled Minutes to to ria cally. 877-5165. 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