Friday, March 08, 2019

Every Day


What do you do? You write poetry every day anyway.
Don't feel bad about it. No one ever has to see any of it
despite their greedy mind's innuendos and the ghosts

this is all yours and every word is how you want it stop-
ing in any way it pleases you to say it doesn't go like
wearing a uniform and having to appease an authority

even if you submit which you do all day anyway bowing
to this god of order and that god of despair and anger
vowing to break words like yours apart before they join

you make them into verses and put them into your
order because here where you are creating is your poem
coming out of the chaos of morning just to say hello

I brought you this spray of words from the garden and in
a week they will all be forgotten and how many left are
your days going to gather a gift like this of your life?

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