This pretense of casual disinterest – Verse Us (Poems by Me)

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For me a dress shirt

Is a collar;

A noose of sized fabric

Carrying in it the smell of burned and discomforted skin.

Some ancient karma and

nucleotide directives colluded

in raising this aversion.

Behind this pretense of casual disinterest,

Sits an ocean of anxiety

Circumambulating my larynx.

An ocean into which I might one day

surrender

Fully in peace.

Verse Us - Poems I write: haiku, senryu, mesostics, free verse, random word constructions, I might even use rhyme or meter once and a while.

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