Thursday, December 02, 2021

FOR THE LIVING

I envy my dead friends
for being dead.
Those empty heads line up
to fill with light.

They ascend the only hilltops left
that I can't climb.
They depart from this
with a gassy hiss.

In the aisles of wanting,
the forced march of desire
I long to leave
the ones who haven't left.

In the masked airport
in the market of diminishment
I long to close my eyes
and open the wild.

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