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Friday, February 14, 2025

Chad Parenteau

Hurdle, Part 14


Every pen

new tale

tells you.


Run takes

all pens’

solution.


Regulate camp

fire’s flames

bodies easy burn.


Keep coal hot

throw feed’s sticks

who writes "help?"


Shaman buys 

bullshit’s own

initial magic.




Stat


Cause lost

in translation

from world

to view.


Heart broker

casket open

case closed.


Would have

died anyway

days before

next birthday.


Priest maskless

collarless

body count drab.


All numbers

are crunched

into one,

process sped up.


cause of death

blacked out

burnt after read.


Magic bullet

slight of handed

blown back

into air.




No Poem


On the train

room for thought

only after six.


must leave now.

Don't know why

no one likes you late.


No one knows

what to do

when you're early.


But they sure hate

when you stay

writing poems.


Fold your lobster claws

gripping archaic

pad and paper. 


until you stab heart

with no way

to make record. 


Next stop. You're there.

No poem. Get back

to work. Thanks.







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It's no- thing but a game that fucks me up ya know  and i  can't  take a pic- ture