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The Small Voices (Not A Windmill’s Chance…without my brother) I wish I had a nickel for every time she pointed out that’s just how it is now like I’m ignorant … like I’m surprised life had made me it’s bitch … but a small voice that isn’t harmonized, that isn’t paired by another in tune … isn’t harmony … and … when did life make you so smart … ? and … made you its bitch?? as the two of you laugh at me right now fitted for plastic armor? readied for any situation … big or small … pierce with my pointy stick while wheeling atop a uni-cycle I call stead … ?? precarious, I know … but brave? to fight alone knowing it’s more than life that’s hurtful that wants to make me their bitch … ?? because … bitch-slapped. it’s easier taking down the labeled Quixote (reckless, feckless), than lance these giant demons — machines designed, sluicing the weather around us, taking our energy, harvesting our electricity to deplete good souls to short out … not grounded to any element, chained to that grist … railing with clenched fist … toppled: and there you are standing over me. I see through this visor what you intimate … what you intone … like a coward you pick on the weakest thing planted in the dirt of a machination’s shadow … you’re lucky I see you and not a windmill (that I look up and not down on you… where you say my poem should have ended … there. It never ends …) but for a small dagger life goes on without my brother. 2.24.24 I made last 3 lines its own statement than attach to the poem machine because it is the only thing that could separate, yet like throwaway lines only a fool/man would consider In post.. taking up the gauntlet ? while everyone else is saying back away from it because they can’t control me or think me a fool with it? I have no doubts Yet, labeled to make me feel reckless, feckless I hold on to it, sleep with it… not to feel safe … but the closest thing to kinship I have in this world it’s that side of myself everyone denies me access to… won’t realize or accept I live in two worlds just to feel whole in one because cowards and what do they sleep with…? WHAT HAVE I TO HIDE? Oops, I left caps on… and I’m not going to fix…cuz…?? Not going to be a bitch to ML either… |