Showing posts with label you. Show all posts
Showing posts with label you. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Napowrimo 4/22/26: semantic shuffle featuring the mirror

 Today's Napowrimo prompt has a request to have a speaker in dialogue with himself, which is also my default way of thinking.

...say you feel personally attacked
but, in actuality, you are seen.
you wait for this. don't you?
doesn't everybody? this isn't
everyone.

I've given thought to the notion
of everybody being this or not
this. I'm siding with the notion that 
it is this. you would. and you 
only exist to antagonize. sooth
sayer and a mystic, I am.

that's what everybody says. again
with everybody.
everyone is a mystic
when its convenient. are everyone and 
everybody one in the same?
 you've never
considered flavor in speaking?

I've never considered flavor at all. I am
your invention.
then look upon your creator and
stop asking questions. to what end is my purpose?
you got me there. did I?

I see what you're doing and I'm really not laughing.
why not? because you are. laughter is better with
someone else.
who told you that? you did.

I don't have an answer to that. then open your throat
to the air and the mirth of the universe. let the miracles
take you. there is nothing to it.

nothing, indeed. indeed. 

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Mantra (Pitfall)

 You are the way you think you are.

Exactly that way. 


On a rope

Gripped tight—white knuckles

Tension sawing through the bone.

Seeking to loosen

attachments.

Fighting,

To stay suspended

In the space

Above

The snapping jaws

Of some ill-timed

convention for

half-starved crocodiles.


What you think,

you are.


Eventually.

Let the teeth

and the frenzy

rise up.

do the Lord’s work.

Leave the bones

Splitting at their ends

as a monument

to knowing

Thyself.


You

are,

you think


You.