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Poetry is no safe refuge

life after 30

By M.Published 2 years ago 1 min read

Struck by lighting on the way to Damascus

it's still too early for planned obsolescence.

My demon wishes for a ten-point bulletin

but there is no plan for the end of summer

And poetry yields no safe refuge for us

maybe it never did. We wanted to drink deeply

and we deeply drank.

The wind smells trite now, unholy

mounds of fish guts and watermelon plastic

rot happily before my door

Are we the roaches, or are we caretakers?

Stream of Consciousnesssurreal poetryFree Verse

About the Creator

M.

Half-time writer, all time joker. M. Maponi specializes in speculative fiction, and speculates on the best way to get his shit together.

Author of "Reality and Contagion" and "Consultancy Blues"

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