justwrite 19 october

heed these words that absurd courage stuffed behind your eyes is enough to surprise even the cheapest saint the faint of heart have no cause to start in alarm when finished by your charm the arm-wrestling chess champions camping out inside the dungeons never budging beyond the locusts the plagues the stages of denial both pre- and post-trial out of sorts with courts both supreme and gleaming with the grime of real-time drama the crime in the sauna and the alligator alleged to have wedged his tail into the high-rise mail slot when madam ought to have been keeping more than a leash on the beast to say nothing of the rugs after the fact the tracking of the exit polls the preferences for rolls instead of slices the joy of mincing instead of dicing and the icing on the cake is the guilt spilled all around and found on everyone's shoes so no one can lose a beat over such discrete feet and yards on hard-scrabble stones and excuses and yes the juice is too sweet but no one told you to lose your teeth over it