Never Say Never

Poetry feels pitiful besides the brute weight of reality.  Why bother these imaginings when there are dishes to be done? That vague window of liberation gets smaller and tighter each day anyway, why the striving and the pushing and the clearing through brush? Why all this concern?

Perhaps it's because, in the end, we know we need the therapy.  Someone on the other end, fine. If not, I'll sing in this echo chamber till my lungs grow eyes.  (Which will never happen.)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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May 19, 2016 at 4:21 PM
Wow! Matt....You do dishes?? No, really, this woke me up. The urge to firstly sit and compose, then show our wares to the uncaring world. At least we are self caring and the therapy does not cost a dime.
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