Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Clean Cuts

the cuts are clean
  if a little misshapen

when nails need trimming

that of the forefinger chipped
  on the b string of an old guitar
    I was playing for my enjoyment
      while I sat alone in an empty room

neglected rats in stark cages
  bury their heads in the ground

probably to avoid the truth
  that life has its expectations
    but here I am recycling tired phrase

repetition is cycle management

back to waste expulsion
  toxic intake
    repeat

the death of the unsuspecting man
  is slow but inexorable
    and will leave him in want
      of an experience to call life

now I must wait for their regrowth
  so I might play once more

so I might have an experience
  so I might call it life

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