What It Means
Living life
on life’s
terms has
next to
nothing to
do with
society.
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what it means
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negative input
Negative Input
Praise throws
the writing
off just
as much
as derision.
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categorical denial
Categorical Denial
Anything that
gets categorically
denied usually
has some
truth to it.
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the bare minimum
The Bare Minimum
Amen to
the brothers
of the
cross hawking
rosaries.
Amen to
the end
of prayer.
Amen to
thrift stores
& accidental
tourists
plainspoken
cryptologists
& the
call girls
who decipher
their longing.
To all those
who keep
the ball
rolling the
proud wheel
turning the
mayhem
at simmer.
The twice
tangled knot
the shrill
cry for
amnesty the
crevice to
hide in.
Chirp like
a bird
if someone
looks in &
sees you
bask like
a lizard
give a
flash of
the evil eye,
about the
last option
left open.
This is
the bare
minimum
asked of
you by
those who’ve
gone on
before.
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dead-end evolution
Dead-end Evolution
I’m a
throwback an
uneatable fish
a beach
ball in
summer a
Neanderthal
with an
outsized brain
someone they
held back
in the
first grade
a prophet
with a
ticking clock
in his
abdomen
a Romeo
with a
long list
of Juliets a
dancing fool
a pinch
hitter on
a losing
streak someone
with no
spare time
a secret
agent in
a diminishing
universe.
I’m ready
to die
are you
or have
you still
got a
trick up
your sleeve
prolonged misery
stuck away
in a
safe place
vitamins in
the hem
of your
wedding dress?
Well carry
on then
wheel out
the Trojan
Horse travel
back in
time like
a blind
Aborigine
look for
signs.
You’re the
last verse
in a
nonsense rhyme
in a
dead-end evolution.
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a million in one shot
A Million in One Shot
It’s more
than the
human race
can handle,
being the
cutting edge
of a
million in
one shot.
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