I walked it
to keep me from
walking back into
the slaughterhouse
read renewed obit daily
spattered on asphyxiating
pulmonary walls when
you moved on in
an attempt to replace
our magical rarity
maybe it was for
the exact same reason
you put the gun in
your lonely mouth
preferring suicide to waiting
for unsuspecting heart
to get massacred
again
choosing instead to stroll
hollow self-made planks
with egoic illusions
of control
I won’t
walk it again
I’m stronger now
though it will hurt if
you repeat the bore
boring stale pattern
into open skull
starting
to flower
it will be no
surprise
and I know I
will be OK
this time
look
I know I
terrify you
quake your bones at
thought of home foreclosed
U-Hauled, stooped alone affront
cold locked door
too bad
there’s no one else
who understands what that’s like
who’d hold your hand and dive inside
your diverting fractured ice in melt
saying silently, as I turn to pools
me.
*******
too.
Nov 30, 2017
Nov 30, 2017 at 5:09 PM UTC
I walked it
to keep me from
walking back into
the slaughterhouse
read renewed obit daily
spattered on asphyxiating
pulmonary walls when
you moved on in
an attempt to replace
our magical rarity
maybe it was for
the exact same reason
you put the gun in
your lonely mouth
preferring suicide to waiting
for unsuspecting heart
to get massacred
again
choosing instead to stroll
hollow self-made planks
with egoic illusions
of control
I won’t
walk it again
I’m stronger now
though it will hurt if
you repeat the bore
boring stale pattern
into open skull
starting
to flower
it will be no
surprise
and I know I
will be OK
this time
look
I know I
terrify you
quake your bones at
thought of home foreclosed
U-Hauled, stooped alone affront
cold locked door
too bad
there’s no one else
who understands what that’s like
who’d hold your hand and dive inside
your diverting fractured ice in melt
saying silently, as I turn to pools
me.
*******
too.
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