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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
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#1025475 added January 27, 2022 at 9:22am
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Pot Of Hope
Pot Of Hope

I know we're supposed to whisper -- but
we left him
in the hall.
why spend $9.95 to have him when
we don't think of him at all.

Midday,
lone shaft of light angles
to reach
over the rail into the corner where
he lays alone,
you on the phone,
me in my mind
wandering to and from this place.

He could be be so pale,
no love
but neglect of a dream of ownership,
the promise
in a bucket with a brilliant,
little sticker adorning
his crib,
now coffin,
in this less cozy, little home.

Did my dream become his,
to produce and reproduce,
give love we had,
serve a couple in need of
a little more ambience,
like potpourri burning
nasal passages to connected brain,
no memory
just credit to buy
an affordable, middle class
pot of hope?

Death was long before
adoption, a struggle
for light, and taste for
a drop of tap water
in nutrient-rich
dirt -- lifelong nap,
not a rare colored iris
will wink awake
in the dead of these nights.


1.27.22

I think we're all destined to dream of something unrealistic for just $9.95, today... delusionally waste time, invoke it into mind-f'd reality.

A little dream of ownership with no skills to cultivate life.

It sounds harsh: but, fuck everybody for imposing their reality into mine... especially, the ignorant sentimental fools who are not awake tonight. (Sad I must disclaimer: metaphorically, not literally...if you even know the difference from...nevermind. Point made?)


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