Please Kill Reid Baer

Primum non nocere
By Reid Baer

I am no Internet Star nor
do I desire to be one
anymore for recklessness sake
I have way too often broken

my own treaty, “First do no harm.”
I am no one’s fast friend, no one’s
example, no one’s foil, nor hero
on their journey lest I take glory

in those cuts and jabs I confess,
I do confess, I am a thief
not a Chief not a New Warrior
as I have shot an arrow over

our house and hurt the neighbor and
my cruelty has not always been
to be kind and my stewardship lay
in ruin so much so I can’t

find a passing sorry for you -
no emotional recompense! -
but this I can do and I do
open my mouth forcefully to

warn you of my own self interest,
failing, flailing, and irreverence.
So, I petition you to see
my patent grandiosity.

Please kill me twice with the rising
sun while I look to the sky blue
and listen for God’s piercing voice -
a sound that may confound you too.
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