Beautiful Words

These blatant lives we lead
with their guts hanging out,
yet only between beautiful words.

I remember (after the failed surgery),
when guts spilled out of my real body;

that unwinding of blank verse uncoiling
in a slow slime of sincerity,

and all those gory details falling out, at last
saying something true.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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January 7, 2021 at 10:23 AM
Oohoohoo! Eric! I feel your pain. Just getting over a ruptured appendix. Well said my friend. God Bless, JB
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