Pill-popper
street-walker.
President.
Both live only as long
as their legacies.
* * *
Committing
life
to paper
is difficult when it constantly
unfolds.
If we create something eternal in art,
then it is a contradiction
of reality.
* * *
‘Smile,’
a man once told me,
‘and the world will wonder
what you’re up to.’
I frown because
I fear
what the world is up to.
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