A long-delayed "first" post...

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"R.S.V.P."

New dawn greets me with a new depression:
A crooked smile and an endless supply
Of uninformed opinions.
(I check my dreams at the door.)

So entwined with locust love,
I crash land and drop the unwavering sun.
My church bell’s cracked; I’m likely drunk,
Amnesia seized and hypothermic.

Thus I faint and thus I wake:
Lulled by life or roused by life--
Welcomed further within derisory days
Where dull beasts croon their hollow charm: “Drink up!”

Now climbing pensively backwards down
A lucid ladder of nervous bones,
I count stale breaths between stale steps
And the choices I make which time forgets--

Mystifying plains of old skin razed
’Neath lurid sky, lightened, and opened wide.
Peered in and saw the true outside;
Today I have unwrapped the mind.