Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Swing and a Miss: Poem 06/02/2021

Another day of applying for jobs and setting up interviews. In the midst of that bland chaos I managed the poem printed below:

Copycat

Wailing off into the sunset, 
"look ma, no reason for any of this,
just amoral bliss..." pockets yanked
into elephant ears, snickerdoodle 

nod I miss or forget it, no
single person exists save the target. 
I cross my fingers twixt their hairs & trigger 
golden applesauce across our history. 

Narrative, shrewd judge, thwacking upon scales - 
It's the folk's they don't pay, unincorporated 
pestilence gums the cogs, soiling the pyramid.
In the dark, fear lays strewn for the seizing. 

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