where do you stuff the darkness?
that comes bubbling out of
the soul container–
a detritus of karmic debt
Or cosmic indifference
do you cram it
in your gullet
like fettuccine alfredo
as if the sauce won’t
reflux at 3:17 a.m.?
do you roll it tight
like a mass-produced cigarette
so it smolders
a dim black coal?
do you pack it
like surgical material
to stanch the inevitable bleeding?
my shadow’s shadow
mocks him
a plaything of
abbreviated afternoons
smothered by
the inky nights
the darkness is his bauble
he points at grim king
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