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“Life”

Sat here in this god-damned courtroom,

unable to move 
backed into the corner by kangaroos
no escape from the ill-informed
baptised in their five minutes of fame

they like to pin me like I’m a donkey
I have no tale to wag...
but they’ll beat it and wag the dog
just the same, 

it seems I'm becoming a fable;

stupid decisions 
I made sometimes in my life
I was the try-hard
fat boy slim, wrong place, wrong time

criminally forensic
I could have avoided it all
but here I sit, shackled and seated
as if sinking 6 feet in cement, humiliated to nothing 

unable to move 
to present a remarkable meaning 
a motive, an inkling to open end it all
I could be innocent, admission of something

anything, 
before the whole world. 

They are ALL -
magnetically pulled
towards me, yet unseeing 
to what is directly in front of them, 

fathoms underneath it all;

why here?
closed off, 
buried already
like I’m sealed

no open case 
without a true voice heard
vaccumed sucker-punched
in a closed box

rat-a-tat-tat

in front of those 
in a more superior world
grave diggers all, ignorant, 
yet more virtuous their call

they’ve had their voice heard;
 
Me - 

three words 
in a sectioned stance
I say audibly loud enough
as if in a trance, 

“I respectfully decline”…

the ball bounced against 
a dumb wall 
where vacuous minds are lined up, 
resounds back. 

Life 
4 
consecutive times 
applied

somewhere 
out there 
the real monsters 
walk free. 

And here I am, 
dealing with mine, inside, 
perhaps a patsy,
the outside continues to debate
 
angel or monster?
human or demon?

I have no voice.

the audience 
speaks it for me,  
has its final say - 
true or false?

I turn away;  

163214
the number of a man

on the table
pen and paper
a work of art
for deciphering,

a black heart remains





CandideDiderot ‘25

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