No-L

#No-L

Maybe if I doubt
    heretic
    demagogue
    penitence 
    wrench up the duvet and cover my head

Maybe if I run
    hundred-K
    sanity
    puppeteer
    come take my hands drink this wine share this bread

Maybe if I pray
    hard enough
    find the right 
    deity
    unstick my tongue from the roof of my mouth

Maybe if I squint
    camera one
    kodachrome
    aperture
    focus my vision starboard of the prow

Maybe if I choke
    wedding dreams 
    baby shoes
    birthday cakes
    heart-sick of pricetags too rich to afford

Maybe if I rage
    rosaries
    broken jags
    inward-shaped
    naked and bruised as a second-rate whore


Maybe if I drown
    residue
    thirty-aught 
    christmas eve
    taste of white comfort three snicks and I'm done 


Maybe if I wake

--LFF

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