I refuse to search the gaps
in conscience to find myself
when I am surrounded by madness
and murder and maybe
these images of perfection are merely
illusory and the steps
necessary to walk this path
are not taught in public schools
by parents, by bosses, by the lost generation
and we instead grasp to strands
of green cloth that keep us from drowning
and dying in silence while the world deflates
and folds over on us.

01/11/2011

Author's Note: unfinished, and unpolished, and uncut.

Posted on 01/12/2011
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