On Pain #01- Journalists

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Poets are only journalists lost in translation. You say that I’m being mawkish, sentimental

Too sensitive, soft, weak.  But it is the truth and only the truth that I’m in pain.

It is fact- I am trying to tell you what I know of myself and what I don’t.

There is a feeling in my chest like my vomit is reaching itself up my

Throat- Clutch at straws and I can’t see or breathe or speak

I’m sorry, I’m screaming, I don’t know what else to do.
It is the truth and only the truth that I’m in pain.

I’m not writing because the truth is beautiful

But this is the only way I can get the fact

Across, succinctly, in good lights,

Without cheap cigarettes

Without tears

Safely.

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