Sunday, May 21, 2017

SATURDAY IN MANHATTANVILLE

getting bagged, gorked
daughter's tears

wifely protests
condemned to ego

pursue altered 
states at all costs

altered states
familial oblivion

heroic acts demurred
often enough

to make a cocoon
self-immolation

for ignoble causes
of self love/loss



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