blather
years_ago
knot meat this very dime suspended in glass day
the red dawn morning
when the alarm wakes me
audible needles
and i'm using all the things i saved.
if lie down in the middle of a busy
street - will you be pre-empted
to concrete?
will you become the darling
of every person who ever walks you?

to become so unecessary to yourself
that you are immediately necessary
to the maddening famine
of briny soldier shouldering on -
mothers and doctors,
and the thugs they think they are not.
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