Artistic Expression

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'That's one good fucking poem'

Yet, my visage remains forlorn.

I agree. They are true. I have to.

If not, I'll drown too deep in the blue.


'Write more,' or 'You should publish them.'

Done that, done that. I swear, they're my anthem.

My artistic expression; of symbols and rhymes.

But I'm afraid I was never a poet; only a mime.


One who doesn't know when to stop.

One who jams with the joykilling bop.

One who rids the 'joy' in a 'joyride'

One who can only nod and abide.


I once Googled; it's a coping mechanism.

At this point, it's my own emotional sadism.

A schadenfraude of my existentialist knowledge

in the midst of this ongoing Russian roulette.


But the barrel of this gun, it's empty. I think.

So when I shoot myself, I will die of nothing.

A life wasted, a death meaningless. I think.

At least, I think, it is enough; it's something.


It should be something.

It has to be something.

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