in essence

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Published: May 15, 2014

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poetry is:

i.
regurgitated words,
chewed and swallowed
and spit back out again,
layered with
our own spit and our own stories

ii.
recycled stanzas filled with
reprocessed metaphors;
just another well-chewed bone
to pass on to the next set of teeth

iii.
a cry for help, or love, or happiness,
or the attention of a world
too distracted by its own misery

poetry is:

i.
lowercase letters
of the peaceful sort:
soft tranquility
nestled under my tongue

ii.
most of all, the roman numerals

iii.
to list out my thoughts

iv.
as if there’s any sense of order to them

v.
order is an illusion
a trick that we all fall for
as if we don’t exist
under the monarchy
of chaos
(let’s not forget:
chaos is beautiful
or so it is said)

vi.
let me tell you:
don’t squander breath
on periods or
roundabout words —

in essence, poetry is:

i.
the blood pouring from
our paper cuts

ii.
the bandaids we slap
haphazardly
over them

iii.
and the pain that
nevertheless
leaks out from
underneath

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