OUCH!: Poem of the Day/// hbz

The Big Musical Number About War

 

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Starting Pistol Blues

 

World of the Open Wound:

Armies crawling out

Dramatic

 

Over the crusty edges

Where the scab is attempting to

Hide the Shame

 

Army boots

Crunching

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OUT!

 

A second swarm

Investigates

Inside

The Open Wound

 

Armed Spelunkers of the Mind

 

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Now:

How'm I reacting?

How am I adapting?

How'm I behaving?

I want only the attention that I want

 

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When I was a kid:

I talked to birds

Dreaming a connection

Feeling flight

Love in a classical semi-mythic portrait

 

Before

 

The Wound

Found me

 

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Beautiful

Mind

and

Head

Space

 

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"That kid saves me all the time."

 

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