5.19.2024

Waved Under Your Nose

Most jokes

start in prison

or to get into

her pants;

not this one.


You receive

congratulations

from a number

you haven't seen

in too long. 

Drawing from

your mess of genetics

and affiliated curses

you choose not

to react (your mother)

and wait a few hours

to respond (your father

who art in heaven)

denying the state

of fatherhood

wrongfully bestowed

upon you

based on photographs.


You rise from

that shotgun blast

still easy on the eyes

of the blind

and do your best

to celebrate complexity

going all out

to clean everything

but your soul.


May used to be

your favorite month;

when you were conceived.


It's winning.


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