Bruno Ashley Oversol

Bruno Ashley Oversol Oct 2020

haiku 4

I, at the moment,
am giving myself a gift
which unwraps itself.

October 2020
(Removed from other platforms for only containing one period. ???)

#silent #haiku

Bruno Ashley Oversol Oct 2020

I long for the days when anonymous
and discreet were not yet synonymous.
My, how times have changed.
Its hard to get strange
when so few of the men are autonomous.

October 2020

#limerick

Bruno Ashley Oversol Oct 2020

Okemah

I didn't go to school
fourteen hours a day to work at Walmart.
Its no small wonder these people smoke.

You'll never get ahead.
Just earn your daily bread and drink to forget
that poverty is slavery.

And no, you can't take a break.
You're in a "Right to Work" state:
money talks, you don't get a say.
You're fifty thousand dollars in debt.

Too many things to do
in not enough time for you to do it alone.
Don't let them take advantage of you.

October 2020

#born #and #buried #at #home

Bruno Ashley Oversol Sep 2020

haiku 3

the love of God is
placing sentimental worth
on a piece of trash

September 2020

#secret #haiku

Bruno Ashley Oversol Aug 2020

Despair

They teach it to them when they're very young,
the consequence of stepping out of line.
They chant and sing and make them swear an oath
to concepts children scarcely can define.

Enlightened to the gills they all must be,
and wealthy too, and healthy little kings!
How cheaply liberty is made for them,
like leaded water from the tap it springs:

to watch collapse from comfortable seats
until the seat and window are no more!
No, nothing now remains except the hole
where a seeming person was before.

I pray to God that whatever takes hold
of them at that time has a human soul.

August 2020

#despair #sonnet

Bruno Ashley Oversol Aug 2020

burgrass seeds

tried to clean your grave
again today. i miss you.
i was only three.

he blames you, you know,
for something you said to him
when he was sixteen:

"make her come back home;
don't come back until you do.
go get your mother."

he didn't talk back.
"you didn't do that back then."
1983.

instead, he broke down
thinking you abandoned him
just like that woman.

i know you loved him.
i know you were a good man.
something ****** you up.

whatever it was,
it was speaking through you then,
that unholy ghost.

he never heard me,
just beliefs to argue down
when i was that age.

i absolve you both
though i struggle to do so.
christe eleison.

August 2020

#durufle #requiem #opus #nine #movement #two

Bruno Ashley Oversol Aug 2020

haiku 3

You think you're ready
for the uncanny valley,
but guess what? You're not.

August 2020.