jump on the merry-go-round
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lives
running off into
nowhere
starting from
the beginning
Leaves on the breeze
In all directions
Blown by the wind
Buffeted
Without
Choice
Life’s that bad, is it?
Trying to avoid
Facing reality
By finding different ways
Drugs or fantasies to escape
Light globe
Glowing filament
Fading slowly
Power spent
Leaving
Black
Lines
Straight
Lines
Curved
Lines
Lines going nowhere
Endlessly circling
Or directly to
Their destination
Thin
Lines
Fat
Lines
litrse
wot duz
it matr
f i kant
spel
mi pernts
didn no
y shud i
means to an end
twist
bend
strain
cook
doctor
rig
fiddle
juggle
fake
act
bluff
cheat
LIE
One plus one
One
Person
Cannot love
Fully without
Interaction with
Another life
A second
Person
Two
Patterns of Light
Myriad
Reflections
Splattering
Diffusely
Producing
Latticework
Creations
Perfection Lost
It was something
exquisitely
beautiful
delicate
A perfect
example
of the artist’s
ability
Now it is lost
shattered broken
split apart
smashed destroyed
Forever
disabled
There are some things
That can’t be fixed
Personal Taste
small
petite
perfectly
smooth and silky
immaculate shape
more appealing
than other
larger
ones
Pornography
dogeared pages
marking the places
that are frequently
turned to
in the book
thought of by some
as indecent
degrading
disreputable
scandalous
but by others as
celebratory
artistic
beautiful
erotic
perhaps
it is both
perhaps
neither
perhaps
a position of compromise
all dependant on
the philosophical
or moral
base
that the individual
viewers
ideas
spring from
Predator or machine
Deep within the rainforest
Hidden in the valley
Unseen unseeing
Still able
To cause
Death
Probably not
I sat down
to write a
poem of
happiness
I finished
with one of
hate despair
emptiness
If I tried
to write one
of chaos
destruction
Would I write
a poem
that is full
of love joy