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Taking the Witness Stand

Ted Jackins

There is no spiritual pause
in my stance,
no God in the way
that I speak,
I just spit and crawl from
one end of this room
to another
and as day bleeds
into night I sleep,
but do not dream.
I am far too concerned
with my guilty misgivings
to allow myself any
sort of rebirth
or even a mental cleansing.
No,
I use scars as roadblocks,
but nothing can ever
be halted from within.
Perhaps I lean too
easily on these pages
of piss stain poetry
to ever give myself
a break,
but besides,
I cannot control what
happens between
the nine to five hours,
I can only hope
to control the weather.

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