An Intrinsic Exquisite

control keeps

popping up

controlling
each other

controlling reality
controlling money
controlling time and

most of all
controlling people

and of course
since it never works

the mechanisms for control
get more severe
and inevitably

the only way to control a living thing

is to kill it

yesterday
this one was raped.

the same day
there was a murder and a child died

somewhere else
a family is trying not to hate each other
while they negotiate a life restrained by repressive, systematic governmental betrayal

it makes me happy when my house is clear
and I don't owe anyone anything
and no one is in debt to me

then wintry dread fades from my heart
and all around me gains a spark of humor

grinning
I bear my soul
and have no fear

tonight my house is full of dancing ghosts