Thursday, May 26, 2022

The Wise Chairwoman

 

it’s ordinary frustration, the pain of the instrument, Will you be there forever? medieval mysticism, framed in dying, merchants as sailors. the room filled with shadows, mainly silhouettes, they speak unto ghosts. absorbed by the ability in you, to ask, Are you ready for monogamy? to fathom quick romance, immediate satisfaction, in a sense, a slant towards immaturity—for chase of the rose, for the ‘call off,’ for the ‘calm down’; much economy in variety, more sincerity in privacy, with a need to feel beautiful for eternity; sweet fawning, harmful intoxication, to lust like Lucifer. so academic, it might work; so lost, it might kill; just precise, it might seem too much—the fire of the ecstasy, to give all one possesses, to acquire, adjust, like crazed wolverines—so determined to leave you alone, such a greatness, with one privileged, in a different agenda; camera champions, enabling habits, hills fraught by labor—the laboratory, adept at acting, until pulled in, with meaning so gray, lust and passion, a need for that one person—not to explain it, not to justify it, simplicity becomes the measure of our excitement. (to sense a kindness, all of its pardons, with souls unreasonable; never putting pen nibs to ink, never asking key questions, just toxified by attention.) the cage of the vulture, as only believable, if the steel is torched together. an extraordinary feeling demands attention. a certain person will give us life. like eating candy, catching a rush, it might come with a letdown. too many categories to deplete, the chairwoman might ask, and need to believe, if the sanctuary is fit for her and her only?                 

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