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To your fears...
Poetry.............
December 10, 2022 at 5:58pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:58pm
#1041670
8-5-22


Welcome to the shitshow;
the world is a zoo.
I greet you with the mic check
         one-two one-two
just to see who's listening
and who's being listened to.
I never bore a child;
I respect you if you did
         or didn't.
         It's not my place.
I stared death in the eye
and kicked it in the phases
         of the face,
         of the tail,
         of its tumultuous pace.
I don't smile much but I don't need to.
Everything you do has been done before;
         you're the read-through.
Panic is my middle name;
         attack is my last.
I am apparently not a parent
         and I'm happy that you asked.
I don't suffer discomfort gladly
         and I'd never let it pass
on to another one,
         a daughter or a shining sun.
I'd be something of a masochist;
         a schism. Table for one.
I can only function as a mouth.
I'm not a spout or a demon
         ready to sprout.
You can fight the battle and
         send your kids to war.
I will not be replicated
to duplicate the chore
of whatever we're mad about
         today and forever more.
December 10, 2022 at 5:47pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:47pm
#1041669
7-8-22


Bruises...
we all got 'em.
Ain't no other way we coulda stopped 'em.
Tell me yours, I'll show you mine.
Why? We got lives to live
and there's a roadmap inside.
This is who we are
and what we live for.
We don't cry no more;
the milk's gone sour.
Show your teeth and
strut your beefs and
let everyone know your secrets.
Show me yours and I'll tell you mine.
They'll stay with us,
within us, between us,
until the end of time.
December 10, 2022 at 5:44pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:44pm
#1041668
6-30-22


When was the last time
         you were on the ledge?
That edge?
Your body resisted every attempt
         to do it,
as if it wasn't supposed to be
         complicit. And
         not into it.
I've seen to many of my
         heroes die
without saying why
and I'm over here like
why not me?
         What's wrong inside me?
To live and have to explain
why my brain is overwhelmed
by heartaches and pain
I can't begin to ascertain.
Hell isn't mythical;
it's physical.
You wanted it but can't have it
and now you've become it.
I'm an outsider within myself
and I make no apologies
         for myself.
I don't talk; I bleed
tears for what I shouldn't be.
December 10, 2022 at 5:37pm
December 10, 2022 at 5:37pm
#1041667
4-25-22


I come around like the wind
         the cat dragged in.
A suffered son, a buffered outcome,
and still trying to tell time by the sun.
While you were burning your last
         four-leaf clover
I was treading water
         turning power into solar
energy to recreate what a day is.
It's fruitless, if you're interested.
The truth is in the proof and the lie is
we have no idea what "getting by" means
but we do it just to do it anyway
and if we make a difference along the way
         so be it.
         So see it.
I'm a fortress with a heart of glass
by design, in case anyone asks
and if I talk without vowels you'll understand.
Bury me alive. I don't deserve
          a proper séance of nouns and verbs
misplaced like my intentions,
and move along...
         we've got other destinations
         to ascend to.


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