what do you evoke?
is it what you wrote
or how you spoke?
you are trying to get conscious
not self-conscious
feeling jesus
feeling pontius
moving towards an eye dear
to sink into the grey meat
to drive nails into the feet
we’re all eager martyrs
rather than non-starters
like loss leaders
i’m an unemployed poet
lingering around a peer reviewed cemetery
where critics double as gravediggers
write it down
lay down
over your head
like a thought bubble on the gravestone
what do you evoke?