4.17.2025

identified, starving, locked in a cage you will not leave alive, no matter how you hate it

Heart, you bully, you punk, I'm wrecked, I'm shocked 
stiff. You? you still try to rule the world—though 
I've got you: identified, starving, locked 
in a cage you will not leave alive, no 
matter how you hate it, pound its walls, 
& thrill its corridors with messages. 
 
Brute. Spy. I trusted you. Now you reel & brawl 
in your cell but I'm deaf to your rages, 
your greed to go solo, your eloquent 
threats of worse things you (knowing me) could do. 
You scare me, bragging you're a double agent 
 
since jailers are prisoners prisoners too. 
Think! Reform! Make us one. Join the rest of us, 
and joy may come, and make its test of us. 
 

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