Sunday, October 16, 2022

poem for a generation of tired failures

 


motionless

like christ’s

fingers dug deep inside

                    his spine

 

no good

 

the heart exposed

all tragedy all irony all

blinding light

 

a metaphor for

despair

 

and you don’t love this

woman but you want her to

love you and none of us in

this room are beautiful

 

all of us in

this desert

are dying of thirst

 

a bunch of fucking

babies, but that’s how

we were raised


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