“Summer Leaves”
Waiting in Good Faith
“Waiting in Good Faith”
It happened again
A summer not as planned
Bug bites in the single digits
Sunburns of no consequence
Waiting for something else
To
Happen
Hoping certain certainties avoid
Protecting those we love from life
And the harm of thoughtless folks
Libertines have become civil libertines
And exact destruction
When passing through the self-checkout line
Not wanting to wait in long lines
Circumventing the gradual path
Because…
People die from the consumption
But, not that consumption
Animals of learned habits
Bad habits
Stain the narrative
A story told
Obfuscating
A selling sexy self-lies
That only we ourselves believe
To get to the next instance
Where choice
Or, it’s illusion
Stammers, sputters, and relents
Waiting for a break
Waiting in good faith
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“Uncivil Liberties”
“Uncivil Liberties”
Growling self-advocacy
Above all else
You, put your interests
Sowing harm and consequence
In the name of happiness
Pursuant to,
The line your ego draws
Not once
Giving service
Or thought
Pursuant to,
The pursuits of others
Your epistemology fits on the head of a pin
A conscience abstaining exercise
Kicking cans down roads
Escape goat, summoned
Pride throughout the fall
What will it take to move the needle?
On your impertinent insistence
To elevate only yourself
And leave objects in mirror
further away than they appear
Keep your choice to die
But…
Go do it the fuck alone
And leave the rest of us out of it
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“Slinging Hash”
“Treebeard”
“Treebeard”
Roots red riot
Reaching up into a stratosphere
Wagging straw doodles
An itch not scratchable
Forming a Bedouin burning bush
Pandemic nettles preventing tight seals
Masking my contempt of you, at you
There isn’t a light apparent at the end of this tunnel
Nowhere to go but up
Breathless
