March 31, 2020

how we bleed through ... test run for #NaPoWriMo2020 ... is it, is it ... another year without a santa claus

photo ---> me

gearing up leering cup 
blade to lip caught 
drinking my own blood again 

we practice these arts these starts these falls 
to covered tarps, laid out like aircraft gone to die 
a desert filled with how we used to be trees 
with branches to the Moon and Sun 
roots to the rain 
and the rivers that run 

practice the arts start singing 
playing the plaid staid glad to be alive themes 
dusting off the shelf fungus collection 
dried with lacquer 
they look dapper and offset any randy title 
on the bookshelves 

i like to view 
my life sometimes 
behind the screens 
behind the screams 
little figurines 
poppet gleans 
old soul sayings  
some become 
mantras 
mostly who am i 
where i am 
what i am 
and 
by the time 
this day ends 
there'll be more dead 
than there need be 
and 
i think i will feel an answer 
i already know 
nose to nose 
what grows here 
root to script 
how 
this last march hare 
of a poem, ends 
dipped you 
dip i dip we do 
the dip


EJR ©

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