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Jackanapes and smoke buttons (Free verse) by Bachus
Why I spit?
Well that's simple.
Take a long fucking look
At your logic, and method,
And an obsessive compulsive
need for security blankets.
I watched you for days.
Gossip to friends about
Necessitous heartache.
As I purged my bleeding
Stomach and vomited in
The Jacuzzi from the bad
Catering sticking to my
Fingers and throat.
But you, you kept up
the grand facade and
orated to the deserving.
About fast food and hand
lotions, and your quick trips to
Bermuda. Your trough fed
Japanese gardener.
I saw you then as you always were,
But different, better, a blue
bleeder. A fine diner,
And the toast of Oxford.
And then⦠Then a great
day came when you let me kiss
your pinky ring, and play with your
Lionel train set in the basement.
You let me blow your whistle, and
push the smoke button.
I was so fucking happy
I cried.
Now look at you.
Look at me.
Wrecked,
On the bridge
Between paper
Mountains, and a pair
of your sisters
pomp pomes.
Look at you.
So fucking
Cocksure.
Making me.
Make myself.
Sick of us.
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