AWAY
GIVE IT AWAY
There’s a theatre company I frequent The
audience is beady-eyed +hungry There in
the dark teeth gnash +a lung is coughed out
with regularity Right now there is a play highly
recommending the virtues of life over decay in a
water filled grave
Is your soul alive? they cry (audience member:
I’m cancelling my subscription they don’t project)
Once again save me from my demographic I heard
them LOUD+CLEAR though only 40% hearing left
in my right ear
If you’re not as alive as you might be you sorely need to
hang around the cemetery or think about the 20 yr. old girl
who hung herself in my niece’s dormitory The latches to her
sadness/madness ennui on a good day not secured tightly
Now all the girls will need an extra dose of Ativan to sleep
Those who found her will find no peace +wander through life
with a deep seated fear of thresholds +getting too close +besties
who are in excruciating pain I had one once +her recurring dream
was: being in room filled with water water that meets the walls
I will never know the outcome of her story
She gave me the finger in an Indian restaurant when I said: Your
ennui is drowning me And I see now that this was one of the best
things that ever happened to me Finally free of her membranes
of sorrow+want +a well pruned borderline personality masquerading
as creativity I was left free +forever weary of hiding malignant narcissists
from psychiatrists +giving it away for FREE
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SPRING 2017 7daysto60
songanddancegirl 