Unholy Obsession

A bulldog trait, distinct bugaboo imp,
(as in obsessive compulsive disorder...)
this is the difficulty of letting go,
as in rumination, running those tapes
in mind’s eye,
a floodlight of sturdy cause
stampeding like a herd to tramp on ease
or delay festivity for grimmer duty.
It is declaring vise-jaw grip,
holding the scrap of red meat
amid swords and weighty plowshares,
shaking frenetic, unsettling calm.
It is a grasp of headstrong habit,
a movie demanding law school outline,
cement trucks rutting gray matter mass.

(And herein lies the disproportional 
  obsessive compulsion, in deep matter
  of the mind, within convoluted organ
  called brain, heavy wheels press skull-
  enclosed lecithin flesh, making pleasure
  tracks--for it is pleasure in a masochistic
  way--allowing bulldog to hold on tight,
  to clench with incisors, exerting pressure
  and passion as if a traveling religion.)


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Writer’s Cramp
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Prompt:
--use, "the difficulty of letting go."