SPARK

Jay Young Gerard

Myra’s Niche

Inspiration Piece

Lisa Nielsen

Still Processing

Response

Mangled and incontinent with leprous bedsores, you are sure this will be estrangement’s undoing.
I can watch you suffer for days, but I’ve got laundry to fold.

Still processing those tightly contracted eyes when you examined me for fatal flaws.
Your lecherous anger spread into a snarl when you found none.

Give us this day our daily dread

Fists and screams were your only bouts of intimacy. All I have left are scars.

Don’t be afraid to be graphic he said, salacious
For details. I’ll do the rest. But the minute I lay on the couch I drifted and dreamed…

Disappointment follows me everywhere.

I’m supposed to forgive you your faulty wiring, say all the truthseekers
as they watch me re-ravel

My success is just a bitter offshoot of learning from bad examples,
blasting the weary and the wrong

While others practice nonattachment,
I am blissfully non-forgiving.

I’ll take my chances

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