Thunder

### Thunder

 

I'm offered congratulations

Behalf my speed, choice of words.

They say I'm holding it

Together.

 

I rubbed pyrite

To learn the touch

Of falsehood:

Cold stomach-sickness.

 

___

 

They all spit.

Each conversation

Leaks water

Into my barrel.

 

This water must leave

Through the eyes

Or the fist

Or the brow.

 

These days,

I just scream

For all the times

I couldn't.

 

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When we woke up in the summer

My brother was out on the lake

In his little metal boat

Afloat on the tiny lake

 

I saw lightning

Spike its clean water

That very night

 

I call to him

But he cannot

Hear me.