The math of this isn’t diminishment
always
if expansion is imagined———
I stayed that way, fist in mouth, breathing through my nose, my elbow way out in front of me, my crush next to me somehow not noticing, in the dark of the audience, dazzled by the light of the stage, keeping all that strangeness inside, holding the storm of my personality at bay, lost boy, trapped in time and space.
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The target?
Innate, guileless, innocent, and simple
intentions, plans, and creativity
To be is to be one
of the many soldiers
of fortune.
look out your window
at the budding trees
and the neighbors that continue to add rings to their trunks,
and the homes that have planted firm, dense roots in their foundations.
Listen, kid: I’ve got a list of names as long as the Nile to get through and they sure as hell ain’t paying me overtime.
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If I feign weakness, we can feel special together. He will feel like a man. I’ll wait to laugh until he leaves.
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Moses
is in the rushes,
stillborn.