Finding Out

Finding Out

       a trial of confusion
       ends up in broken bits
       a blank unfolding mystery

       when I think like this
       not as an image
       or vacuum to inhale
       I'm holding in my mind
       a revision never finished
       notebooks slapping shut
       doors banging open
       a flood of steps out and down
       a street of ignorance cold hard
       immune

       and then what do you think
       my angels shook their heads
       I began to smoke and drink
       "deliver us" they said

       instead I found oblivion
       limited and weak
       there's passion in the wanting
       not finding is the link
       wander through this open mess
       with me until we sleep
       floating helpless gone
       beyond the moments that we keep
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