extraordinary ordinary life

I fix what’s broken

over the years forgotten

on and below the social ladder

everywhere we have

wrong pattern ingrained

as if loosely prepared

to NOT communicate

why is that if all this knowledge

it lies there free to be taken

I learned

that some of us

cannot be changed

in the name of nothing

even if it heals

not only them

but whole families

it just not going to happen

there will still be people

as I

who write poems instead

of communicating

as casual conversation

it can bruise, buffet, burn

from own mother’s mouth

every single word of mine

melted, mutilated, meaningless

what for and why to this extent?

to house the younger

by harming the older

I don’t see any sense in this

bleeding on the page and longing

for the family I never had

but there is still hope

that there is someone

understanding the obvious

or am I wrong?

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February 2023

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