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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1047494-Intrusive
Rated: GC · Book · Arts · #2270145
~ in the neck is low tech, through the heart is high art ~
#1047494 added April 5, 2023 at 5:12pm
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Intrusive
Should I give in to those intrusive thoughts
Spontaneous, immoral, dark & wild?
Should I give in to impulse, give it shape,
And do what impulse tells me, like a child?

To throw myself quite neatly down the stairs,
To leap with gay abandon on the tracks;
To slap a stranger, push them to the ground,
To shove a silver knife into their back?

Oh violence, do not tempt me, do not call.
I wish no harm on others, or myself.
Oh sudden thoughts of punch & push & fall,
Retreat with unheard footsteps, go with stealth.

I don’t give in to such intrusive thoughts.
Experience their shock, but I won’t act.
The private flash of violence is not sought -
I’ll only box with shadows, & with tact.



with a very cheap webcam

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