Saturday, December 31, 2022

Solemn Core

 

Behavior is an asylum. One tries to amend behavior. It keeps coming forward, it will yawn time to time. Talcum over habits. Chains and ropes, bright beautiful hopes and dreams. Oh Behavior, why hath you danced? On Deception, why hath you lied? A season of cries, misleading justice, erotic behaviors. Oh Gagster, what hath you unveiled—life, dishonor, and rage? Minds are playing dodgeball, palms to whispers, valiant behaviors, and loving seems risky. (Either one adores and dies, or one lives detached, unto a flaw.) A harlequin’s life, a clown’s face, so many saving graces. Behavior as a mailbox, a slingshot, a boomerang—light or death, nor the bounce I saw on occasion. Madcap faith. Repurposed arrogance. And birdsong passion. The soul filled with inkjets, behavior on blocks. Emotion leaving watermarks.         

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...