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My Amygdala

by Sam Roberts


So what do I do in this life?
Live, lust, lucid like the absent breed that I am
For the suffering the suffered the tormented wept and wrecked
Pondering the brain as I am in darkness
With no expression except a page

A page of desperation and deceit
The whirling split black hole
Devoid of dreams and living
Is just my placebo pulling, placid lie
A dummy quietly controlled

And so….

Better to pretend, in psychosomatics
Or the guilt festering flies
The forged brittle shells
Shells that hold our severed skin succulent
Together but approvingly apart as well.


08/26/2013

Posted on 08/26/2013
Copyright © 2025 Sam Roberts

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Rob Littler on 09/20/13 at 09:43 PM

Amygdalaectomized, I can't begin to feel, or know if I ever did. But I am neither sad, nor awesome.

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