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if i read another poem

June 3, 2019
By theforgetfuls SILVER, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
theforgetfuls SILVER, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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if I read another poem

I might use my brain

I might start thinking and who the hell

wants to to that?

So I’ll just split open my head

peel back my scalp like a can of mackerel

and pull out the pink, curled ball of thoughts and things lying dormant there

and toss it in my drawer

(maybe the bottom one with all the socks)

for later use.

So let me just sit here

with an open head and an open mind

(never mind the pink, curled ball of thoughts and things―it’s in the sock drawer)

and you could drop anything you wanted in here

and I wouldn’t even

feel numb.



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