Notes About The Poem

sometimes you have to wrestle with authority

The Fort

Build your fort and be its watchman
Wound me with silence or cut me with words
Humiliate me, remove happiness
Put me in lonely company
Make me autarkic

I will battle with whispers
I will hide in plain sight
I will sulk in the now
I will kill with looks
I can cry in secret
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Pigeon Tart Avatar
July 24, 2020 at 6:17 AM
Excellent piece, made me go “hmm” xomo
Vionet Avatar
July 24, 2020 at 8:26 AM
Hey, I'll take a "hmm" any time =]
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