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Continuation Regarding Lunatic Roosting Inside Me Noggin Iii

Please pardon mine assertion
I dared to surmise
familiarity with me, 
an avid reader and prolific writer
(mainly to appease personal pleasure)
thus upon embarking upon
reaching out, your curiosity piqued.

Daily onslaught from schoolyard 
punkish bullies ace
thus, storybooks provided 
haven to experience liberation 
cowardice, fearfulness, insecurity
low opinion regarding base 
sic selfhood writ large upon, 
this then diminutive carapace, 
I firmly believe stunted growth 
with me hallowed face
non-verbal passive behavior 
ideal fodder did grace

for carnivorous, ferocious, 
incredulous, and malicious preface 
to young adulthood oppressing 
quiet soul as if race 
sing existence qua
Wounded Knee leg uss see
(possibly trace sub bull 
during fertilization, 
conception, and accruing 
gestation within, what 
would become a ways
trill womb did) fetal wretch.
 
Mailer daemons choked bravery
absent courage did endear
grievous inner mission
self-starvation parents did fear,
(which evolved via gradations) 
omitting first one repast to share
then two, and finally declining 
sustenance into a lad opting to die

butta as a licensed practical nurse 
(LPN) this then puny guy
became top priority, 
and my mother resorted 
to whipping high
lee nutritious concoctions 
in tandem with 
giving me iron injections

Copyright © Matthew Harris

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