Street Roots • Oct. 7-13, 2016
Poetry
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Triacting
Expectorant
Wax-dipped Wings
By Tory Breise
By Heath Cleaveland
This is a poem
Made with words I just wrote
Meant to symbolize something only I understand
In the hope that it will stir something in you
Something only you can understand
I want to bring to light what you have hidden
Against your will. Without your knowledge, in your subconscious
Behind piles of knickknacks and handmade junk thoughts
Behind the lenses through which you have learned to see the world
Behind the endless drive to consume, there is more
Hanging suspended in the space between these words
Everything, and nothing at all
The very foundation of life
The very core of emotion
The singularity which contains us all
For we are one, and all, and zero
We are legion
And we howl into the blackness of space
And rage at our helplessness and insignificance
And tell lies to cover the emptiness
And stories to cover the silence
And we build things to fill the space
But there is too much, and we are empty in the void
A single, flickering, candle flame
Threatening to extinguish at any moment
Trying to outshine the sun
Icarus, we take flight
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Untitled
By Kenneth Nickell
Far too far from most For I to play a worthy host.
I can’t believe the horror it’s meant. For you my body will be broke then bent
Why you chose something frail that wants for nothing, save the veil,
remove the self from every lie. An end I see is very we.
I am here and couldn’t flee for you are all a part of me.
I could to help, I should the heart, but I am just to ache one mark.
I’ll not be the one you seek. Mine is purpose, only bleak.
I urge that you should give your hand as none will ever understand.
I’ve not gone mad or terror such, that I ask at all I’ve asked too much.
I will not fail that task I’m tasked. I am not sorry for what I’ve asked.
Neither rage not confusion hold. I of clay for you to mold.
My work is almost finished here. Let’s go together and have a beer.
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