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Parsing

Monday Poem

By Silver DauxPublished 6 months ago • 1 min read
Parsing
Photo by Adhitya Sibikumar on Unsplash

And what the actual fuck

Are you gonna do about it?

Yell? Kick your feet like a kid?

Pull a gun on me and pretend

That that's okay?

That it's acceptable

To want to take a life

Because you're pissed?

Yeah.

That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Because nothing is good enough

For a fucking sadist like you.

Not respect, not loyalty, not service,

Submission, deference,

Nothin'.

.

You want blood on your hands

And I have to sit here

Pretending that cha don't.

That you're some kind a hero.

A savior that we should all dirty

Our fucking knees for.

If I don't kneel for a god

What makes you think

I will for you?

Jesus Fucking Christ.

I've met enough men like you

In church

To know that

You're a common breed.

.

Overbred then,

Aren't cha?

Passed those genes back and forth

A few too many times to look right.

Something

Dead in the eyes, huh?

Like one of those doodles that bites

And humps and fucking stares at you.

Born to be a cop.

Vigilant.

No, sorry, I'm done being polite

And parsing my words

Because it turns out that did fuck all.

Stream of Consciousnesssocial commentaryperformance poetry

About the Creator

Silver Daux

Writer of the dark! Think of it like flipping rocks, the weird little stories underneath are my jam and jelly. Jam and butter? Just jam. Absolutely no use of AI in any of my works :)

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    Written by Silver Daux