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The only reason I write is because....

The only reason I write is because....

There are words, solitary and un-empowered., unemployed.

Single, yet, Singular.

 

I de-file them, dis-organize,  tabulate their DNA,

Recombinant, transgenderize, tenderize!

 

Clichés banned, need chunky pieces of  

Shock and saucy sounds that once said aloud,

Never stand still, reverberate, days after first

Spoke.

 

**Words that spoke, spike, such that

Days from now you will come back to this poem,

Sheepish, because you

Spiked,

When these words, you

Spoke.**

 

Thus impaled,

You mine mine veins, thrombosis temples pulse,

You will close contact with your ven,

Intersect memory and prophecy

And never write again the same way.

 

For having left the sanctuary of the familiar,

You will find the truest safety,

Is

None.

 

Answer the posed uniquely, then,

You memberize in the company of poets.

This oath believed and bespoke

Both burdened and enlightened,

You, tuned and turned,

Speak:

 

**The only reason I write is...

Because**

 

 

 

August 29th 2013

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nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
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Aug 29, 2013
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