Sunday, August 7, 2022

Poem: Inside the Mind of a Ghost

 

Inside the Mind of a Ghost

 

doors tilt to spin walls

and the no-way-out victim-

hood shifts its denials to no way

to get clean, not in this uninten-

tional roulette which runs

faster around more corners in

panic to achieve less, yes, 

i am the spin, the pill, the drug

which curves in halls that hunt

and yet still falter hungry to become 

tricks, mirrors, yes,

it is i who must press my skele-

ton to my beating bosom,

and yet not feel the ribs,

none of the marrow's screams,

no chance, zero pitfalls then ,

to spin the silver into the lurking

cellar of risk.

 


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6/26/24  ... 


7/16/23  ... "truth" replaces "ugly (n)" ... "fungus" replaces "mold"

Aug 15  ... added "yet"

Aug 7/22 ... minor changes hours after posting



 

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