maggie oke - Swimming Demons

What kind of decorum could counteract
The defects of your genius
As nature’s priest
You chose
The church of intoxication
Your congregation
Lined up in glass vessels
All sway
And prey
To your rhetoric
And I
Not so
Compliant
As your friendly liquids
I came up against the solid brutality
Of your reality

maggie oke

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