Desmond_Black

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I am no one. And everyone all at once. I am the faceless servant. Or an invention of your own delusion. A figment of your imagination. A pretentious deluded somebody transfiguring into a new body. I am a whisper in the shadows. An alien at home. And a jester who will not laugh. I am no one. And everyone at once.

  July 2023     9 months ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

Finger on the Trigger

Blinking button
launch code
sirens
red lock
down
protocol
steel doors
flashing lights
paradise
oblivion

Newtonian atom
apple power
challenger
explosion
fallout
south tower
explosion
fallout
and the leap of faith

there's...

by Desmond Black

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Ol' Anchor Lane

[SNAP] [SMASH]
The bones X as he dragged out the sap to the alley to X his knee-
caps and his legs

Axe- as a blade
he'd hide in the basement hiss, slither, snake
like...

by Desmond Black

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