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Monique
Monique

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Subconsc[ience]

All those clever, broken

Silent moments.

All closed, never spoken

Violent notions.

And every intended emotion

Whispered away in the wind, unnoticed

Strangling the song of the awry voice, floating

Farther and farther from center,

Exploding

Shaky, uneven nerves

 Of the universe

Profane and perverse,

Caught up in its throat and

Choking on oceans of words

Which refuse to be heard.

Converging every breath of every kind 

With every pulse in every mind,

Connected at the twisted spine

Of the guilty conscience--

  Both yours and mine.


What are we, but bleeders and readers,

Feasting on the meat

Beating around the leaner.

Licking pretty pages open,

Hoping for a story

Flipping chapters too fast, in a fervent fury.

Skimming and fingering quickly for the moral,

Digesting half a painting

To regurgitate a mural.

Slowly, fiends,

Scrutinize what each word means.

These lines don't give themselves away,

You've got to touch what's in between.


Read, soft and thorough,

'Cause these verbs are fertile.

Each and every singular

You and I can make plural.

First thing's first-- Silence

Is the worst thing you're cursing, 

While I'm thirsting for vocabulary

Bursting from each capillary.


Let's explore your diction,

Write a non-fiction.

The finest of fantasies

Is that which we're living.

Something novel and provocative, 

The levee has got a lot of give.

Dammed by laboring, labrythine limbs 

The monster subconscious wants us

  But doesn't need us

  Watch it feed us 

To the hungry Earth.

The sign on the soul says,

 "do not disturb."

Subconsc[ience]

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