Doom Scroll
Now they don’t know what to do.
Do you like have a plan, guys?
Confidence comes not from men
who stand looking at each other
with their hands in the pockets
of their trousers, perhaps rocking
on their toes. Sudden action
could create the impression of
abattoir savagery and many shades
of red, some drying almost to black.
If this isn’t what you expected
let me know in the comments.
I read all of them and only delete
the ones that make any reference
to my mother. If you mention
my mother, I’ll launch a campaign
to end you. Words spoken by
a broken man inspire little fear.
I could walk in a room and not
one person would look at me
or ask me a question and I am
good with that. I accepted the risks
when I chose my vocation,
or when it chose me. And I can go
like this as long as I must
without concern for appearances
or for what anyone has nesting
in the dried spit and sticks of their skull.