“Corrosion of feelings”, the accusation said. A seal, a signature. I was a bit confused, though, when the judge, a heavyset gentleman with a kind red face, rose from his seat and cuddled me.
- What's your last wish, son? - he asked me sweetly.
No wishes.
- Come on, - he insisted. - Ask the audience, fifty-fifty or call a friend?
The subconscious thirst for feeling things the way normal humans do tries to turn even nothingness into something resembling human, to give weight to weightlessness, to attach sense to nonsense, so it was not surprising that they caught me by surprise when I saw the prosecutor's face contort: he was crying. I can imagine how the executioner will be upset to align me a little – a local euphemism. Poor butcher!
you are so callous -
he'll tell me slightly later
feeling my thin neck
31.08.2019
Ten Word Challenge 1 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Much I marvelled the infecting threat;
And its eyes have all the prospecting;
While I pondered, minatory and heavyset;
The hazards came respecting;
I crave the bombastic, beastly belligerent;
And the potential never digging;
And the potentiates never adhering;
The harmonious ultimatum upholding indigents;
The prospects came clearing;
It was veering;
In there stepped adversary geochemistry;
The palate potentiality preserving;
What could there be more purely undeserving;
The means brought such sorrow;
The prospects came clearing;
It was veering;
The world is so grimacing.
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Menacing.......
6/7/19
From Anthology “ Intermittent Praises”
Sunset
How happy is the hot with fire skyline!
Does the skyline make you shiver?
does it?
The decline that's really in the early morning,
Above all others is the twilight.
Does the twilight make you shiver?
does it?
I cannot help but stop and look at the fat sky.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the sky,
Gently it goes - the blubber, the heavyset, the heavy.
Written by Mintra J. Mankasingh
July 24, 2018
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