![]() Talk Me Down from This Ledge, PleaseA Poem by Wilyem Clark
How I got up here, I really don't know--
I hate heights; belvederes and escarpments unnerve me. Maybe I sleepwalk? That would explain it. One morning, I crawled out of bed and discovered The people I care for had fled before daybreak, Leaving behind a welter of grublings, Larvae preprogrammed with inbred agendas. Unfit for human companionship, They exhibit the traits of the dipterous clan: They're joyless and querulous, quarrelsome, cold, Fretful, frightening, and farcically dull. I've tried to befriend some, but it's clear, I disgust them; See how they wriggle and veer to avoid me, For I'm the pariah they can't bother knowing. Would they tilt up their slug-maws and mumble, "Don't jump"? Unlikely. Each slug-breath is time-stamped and hoarded-- Not one's to be wasted on piss-for-brains poets! So now, on this precipice, the subject of swan dives Consumes me: I calculate arcs and project The maximum impact on maggots and mealworms; Apart from those crushed by my shot-tower fall, Will anyone notice? Nope. "Scenes" don't concern them; They'll quiver a moment, then wamble away. © 2017 Wilyem Clark |
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Added on August 8, 2017 Last Updated on August 8, 2017 Author![]() Wilyem ClarkWashington, DCAboutI've been writing poems since my teens (now in my 60s) and prose since the 1990s. It's been hard finding decent forums online--the free websites too often suffer sudden deaths. My "published" works ar.. more..Writing
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