bit of a cross-over from scrytch to reality, trying to head off someone making inappropriate splashes on the list. done in rhyme, a nod to the list itself.
devil in the details
ego, fear, and pride
when all else fails
hide you deep insidediscursive, distraction, destroy
leech on a broken bone
hear marrow-sucking noise
by choice, deaf as a stonethis obsessive focus, known
all too human, here
tainted seedlings sown
harvest will be austereif i thought it’d help
i’d deliver the stinging slap
perhaps in your surprised yelp
an end to this clinging papwe create our miseries
lavish them with care
deformed babes of calumny
the id’s most pressing darei don’t think you hear me
too busy listening to yourself
as if it could ever be
the words you seek would helpscreaming for acceptance
rejecting all that arrives
giddy, glad persistence (that)
no thing yet survivesthis is not a theater
you are not on stage
why do you not deter
this narcissistic rageout of rhymes
out of times
out of many thingsbluntly put, madam
clip your ego’s wings