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Writer's pictureJoel Wordsmith

Mortal Mason Jar


Defiant
// poetry

Like a sober shot glass
Stand tall before the jar
There's a nice X on his forehead
Sling the stone with intensity that far.

Like a chip of the old block
The shot glass is filled with the sober word,
Not every youth is gullible,
Not every kid settles to be a pecked bird.

Like an autonomy seeker,
I invoke my divine truth.
Like a precise slingshot of inspiration,
The inflamed eyes of a youth.

With the precision of an eagle
I slung the stone at the giant
Excuse me, that I didn't submit to abusive authoritarianism
I'm unapologetic for being rationally defiant!!!


 


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