I know you already think I've jarred a few screws loose but don't strain a single synapse thinking too much of it when thinking and feeling are your unloved, quaint and dormant talents You cower from them like a giant, afraid of her own power
Take your pick from the blue ribbon winners. Survey their plumage on your hubris stroll. Their feats of strength will dazzle and amuse you. It's a contest I have eluded.
I'm a dull date out of witticisms I'm a minister out of stuttered rapture You'd rather bask in cascading hollowness than walk into the mines with me.
I don't have a moment to spare when nooses bid for my neck when I've wasted all my love on the wrong people My mandible's on the ground I've molted beyond recognition and we're alps on each others chests not lares securing passage for smooth transmutation You stunt your own evolution, sink into familiar trenches and let the dullards sing your praises
I took you to bat, expecting a change Our feet in the water, but the ocean was daunting You're a pearly presence best left untroubled, fishing for substance in a tumor that's ruptured Watch me sail off, disheveled and mute a Barbary captain, stowing rotten cargo.