I Don'T Have a Soul

I don't have a soul you know
This is not some idle boast!
I expect you'll understand
If I say, I don't do ghosts

I don't believe I have a soul
I don't do ephemeral
or have something mysterious 
for me life is terminal

I don't do soul
I don't play that particular game
I don't have some plastic bag 
tied to my life's bicycle's frame

Nor anything gaffer-taped 
to my pale and ageing breast
something missing from my brain
I don't feel any absence
 
But you don't feel this way
and you may even disapprove
There goes that fool without salvation
the one who required proof

I don't feel an impediment 
or a dearth of anything vital
I'm not at all bothered
I'm hardly... suicidal.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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November 7, 2015 at 8:37 PM
WOW.. love the poem. SKAT
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