left brain isn’t dominant
but neither is the right
like jack & jill
or a couple of peas
they’re as thick as thieves
cautiously conniving
either acting out as planned
or [just for fun]
going off script
once conspiring to fake
their own death
[courtesy of
insistent ambiguity]
all systems went haywire
—rope not thick enough
the rickety stool
just one huge fiasco
march two thousand twenty-five
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they all looked like monsters
even the cute bat/butterfly creature
who should be hanging
upside down
after a pause I wondered
if they thought that I was the monster
—it was about this time I quickly
visualized my escape route
february two thousand twenty-four
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I’m not interested in your ideology
it’s much too mainstream for me
did I tell you what I did last week
how I lost my sight
only to fully recover by way
of a miracle
you keep talking about revolutions
but all I care about
is peace of mind
the kind you find accidentally
on purpose
in the meantime you keep
losing me in the fringes
that place in your mind I still
refuse to go to
september two thousand twenty-one
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