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It Changed Everything

IT CHANGED EVERYTHING Random, primal, and perilous is life, I a spring leaf falling with the breeze, Day of Chaos, then adrenalin slashing strife, Intense hidden desires, No, NO, no, I wheeze, Impossible, shame, self-destruction, I lose, Chains, despair, tears abound, run, run, run Love and desire, too much I choose, Bloody skin seeping, while weeping in the sun, Desiring life, longing for love and honor, Was a sudden insane flash, and the loss of one, befell the other, no longer, ever, am I my father’s son, This foggy frozen life, cannot I endure, My soul in chains, hand with knife, a foolish endeavor, as the devil’s lure, Yes dead, zombie, goodbye sinful life,

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Jim Wiggins

Date: 11/17/2021 11:44:00 PM

I was 17. The scars on my wrist and arms, barely, but visible a half-century later, the blood from my dull hunting knife oozed out. Maybe just dehydrated after my long trip. The car bogged down in a Lousiana swamp. It was July, I wrapped my arms. then a long sleeve and left the swamp. I Passed a dirt road and a row of shotgun houses Black children were playing in the dirt, they stopped and stared at me a zombie walking out the swamp. Mentally, I was a zombie and began healing many months later.