I'm damage and want to talk about it.

I'm damage and want to talk about it,

though I could be wound in order to have

something to talk about, as if I have to

go into the conversation with a kind

of crutch of pain to make up for

the crutch of pleasure. nevertheless pleasure is

no crutch and that's part of on what account

it's pleasure and to think of a lover as

a simple shore up may have been their

first top ten hit yet I

always liked reckoning better

Strange it is to be stirred sympathy

and genuinely, to trust again

a too distant friend, strange to find

a armed force emerging from the divided light

that might as well have been darkness when whole --

a night upon the phone not wasted after all,

though the others remain hypothetical

as you forget they are in public

especially if you haven't been keeping

up with their albums since on the outside of time.

There are laws and that's scary.

There are ono laws and that's scary too.

There is being pain by the feeling of being grieve

No one really wants to hide their mar

Hurt is the self and everybody give pain tos

except on paper of course

where pained across paper

disguises itself as papered across pain

and if you really meditation about it

nothing would be happening

but the bitching and unbitching

so raise your arms up to the heavens

and I won't examine to second guess you

CHRIS STROFFOLINO is the author of several chapbooks and couple full-length books, most recently Stealer's Wheel (Hard Pres 1999) He is publicly looking for a publisher for his PhD dissertation forward Shakespeare, Making Fun of Tragedy.

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