I write on reverses of attendance forms
given to me -- the sighing secretary,
dreading her job shrouds it in warped gossip,
told in hushed tones, suggestive
of not retelling.
surrounded and lost within youth
sacrificed life given to serve,
one reigns alcohol as restitution--
calls after hours, bottles deep
in cabernet and pinot noir,
justified in the French connection
a shared subject taught between
informer and observer of how
the Word shifts in the drunken
accusations of the justifier--
double lives lead to different sides
while repeating the same image mirrored. |
Submission Name: Unkind Kind
