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Talking with Myth

Alex S. Johnson

I am talking with myth today,
sweet as milk


Others may speak
their considered opinion weighed and
egotistic logic chewed through the cord.


Do you get it
I am not you


My knife and gun made in small batches with
only the finest natural ingredients.


In a dystopian world, dreamed of adventure.


I will burn.


Setting my own dream right I will shake it down.


My dragon is a beautiful and graceful beast.
And I damn well love it.

A painful hatching out
from the soil of human
to something else


that did not resemble
their lineaments of mirror


I am going beyond disturbance
in a dance of fire and steel I will
establish this place, built on the
romance of other.


I am talking with myth
in a place where all my deaths are
sharks and guitars


I find the deep so salutary
and this corrosion inexplicably catching


I would love to beat those drums of common sense
but my outlaw shatters that and


this & this & this


It is a rock and the burning star
scratch of a potential psychopath
push of a madness declared
and though it is hard, it is true.

So I am declaring an armed retreat.


In electric bath flattened highs and lows
inhaled the smoke of moon


Welcome or exit. I will come and go.
Treading the track of the melting cross


And thank you so much for the concern
but see
but see


but really see


I am not you.
The tight skin of me.

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