Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

Fear Is Stupid (MV)

You're In My Way

I stood in the path
of a black bear
twice my weight and
ten times my strength.

I wasn't going to run
as it was twice as fast.

I'd never turn my back to it.

I stared and dared the thing
to roughly dissect my anatomy.
I screamed and yelled at the dope
like it was my monster-tormentor.

Before it could shred me
like a woodland pup tent

I woke up.

I hope I see it again.
I'll cover myself in bacon grease,
my blue-red eyes blaring hot
in a frozen white scene,
bells around my neck
and rocks to hurl.

I want one shot
at overcoming every odd
to defeat this grizzly goliath.

I'm more dangerous
because I don't care,
once I smell it's disease breath.
My eyes hard close
like five thousand pound, stone doors
no animal will withstand or scale.

You're mine,
every hairy, little bit
from mouth to bowels,
until I no longer exhale.


12.10.23
33 lines, bean counters
free f-ing verse.

Title plays to both camps. It's implied meaning is up to the reader.

Poem in a word -- fierce.
Two more words -- death wish.

You should see what I wrote before this:

STATIC

Candy Cane Clouds  (E) Winter and seasonal nostalgia unexpectedly mixed one day for a lone viewer. #2310033 by He’s Brian K Compton

whose the precious little MF when they suggest you leave the room?

Dumb or not, this gift to you is my magic act.