mental abscess
Pain is pain....
She reduces and expands,
diminishes and amplifies,
deserts and colonizes,
a specter always shifting.
Pain remembered is pain divorced.
Like the difference between a wave des-
cribed and drowning,
she twists a fog around memory's edges,
recounting a hazy version of the
particular present.
Tie me a noose despite (or perhaps
because of)
her, a symptom, a cause, a smokescreen,
a distraction.
Does the dark, early morning skull shatter by the light of waking,
or does the shattering wake the skull to dark, early morning?
5Sep2020
2300 hrs
diminishes and amplifies,
deserts and colonizes,
a specter always shifting.
Pain remembered is pain divorced.
Like the difference between a wave des-
cribed and drowning,
she twists a fog around memory's edges,
recounting a hazy version of the
particular present.
Tie me a noose despite (or perhaps
because of)
her, a symptom, a cause, a smokescreen,
a distraction.
Does the dark, early morning skull shatter by the light of waking,
or does the shattering wake the skull to dark, early morning?
5Sep2020
2300 hrs
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Pain is pain....
Pain is pain....
