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Mike Brennan

The bells chiming
In my brain are haunting
Like Poe’s but
A tad more euphoric
It seems a split-second ago
Before another BIC lighter flick
Things were quite different
& today I’m itching to become
Another number adding up to a statistic
Another walking failed New Year’s resolution
Plotting my own cinematic version
Asides from simply reaching for
The alcohol soluble solution
While trying to find poetry
In this city’s refuse & pollution
Since there is only a single blocked off exit
Out of this theater on fire
& I struggle to envision
The human condition as
More meaningful than modest suffering
My welfare as something
More than some social security
Maybe an atheistic monastery
Supported by a distant relative trust
Without an infinite debt of underlining disorders
Of both mine & mind
Everything bound between
A brittle bibliographies’ yellow spine
Stripped & whipped
By the mistress of my memoirs
Of a credit history that will curse me
All the way into my oncoming lives
Until I find a way to condense
My stay in this house of corrections
& imagine my willpower wiping off the chalk
Scrawled across this tenured blackboard
Cleaning my slate & spinning the wheels
Hoping to catch a fortune like a cold
While trying to avoid
Other more debilitating
Socially Transmitted Diseases.



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