Thursday, April 30, 2020

DOUBLE HEADS: CAPSICUM ANNUUM




Games, guitars
Clicking keyboards
As adrenaline heroically
Breaks through the heart’s
Beta blockers
Poetry struggling to be born
Amid piles of paper goods
And useless cans of
Presidentially-declared
Canned chicken
Trying not to worry
About my well of semi-poisoned
Water
Dependent on electric power
All that matters
Are the words
Typing ferociously
Occasionally glancing
Out the glass door
Into the swamp
For desperate eyes
Watching me
With a full refrigerator
Typing maniacally
With a keychain pepper sprayer
Protection against
Those eyes
And I think how
Pepper spray is Capsicum annuum
Chilli peppers
An herbal hemostat to stop bleeding
And a savior hemostat
To stop the eyes
Watching me
In the semi-darkness
In a time of chaotic pandemics
But to me
In this teardrop of time
Only the words matter…

© 2020 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
IMAGE: SWAMP WOODS

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