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Poetry is not the world

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Poetry is not the world

A poem for World Poetry Day

below deck
Mar 21, 2023
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Poetry is not the world

And neither am I

neither is the unceasing tension

at the root of my chest

thrashing and twisting

against the pellucid air


To dare to live

is to doubt

at all

in damage turns the flourishing ass

when you feel like it


But one music

in my name

is kinder than no notes

against it


Kiss the giant middle finger

in the sky

and lose your love or spit it all out again


There’s always an answer

from beyond the other side of nothing


Come on now

later still

one’s still rough enough for touch

the yellow piss-soaked grass

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