It began with a tug on the sleeve.
You boy! Who you whistlin’ at?
That question
with a death sentence answer
asked over and over as if the
interrogator was forgetful
or couldn’t hear the answer.
A slap across the face,
a punch in the face,
once on his knees the kicks,
once on his stomach the stomps,
the evidence showed it didn’t stop there.
When the rivers run dry
when the swamps drain
when the all the leaves are shaken from the trees
the evidence will show it did not stop there…
Poetry on the run 
You’re right about a lot of things Ronald. Sometimes you’re provocative, but you make people (myself included) wake up. And I’m not blindly praising you. I wanted to leave this comment on that post about women poets (I’ll stretch it to writers) being dangerous. I won’t say all are, but there is truth in that statement. Fuck, it has taken me years of fine-tuning reason to progress. I’m still flawed, but for whatever it’s worth, thank you.
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Thanks Nitin. I think we have been reading each other’s poetry for a few years. You are able to do what I am trying to relearn, that is to use your senses and feelings to engage with the world. Some people probably think your writing is dark, I call it raw as in real, as in close to the bone. I think you look at an open sore like a poet, I tend to look at it like a doctor. You open up a subject and let all the emotion run onto the page. I am still too self-conscious. Too preoccupied with what is going on in my mind to fully engage my emotions. So I say thanks to you for helping me see there is more to say about the world, more to poetry than just thinking about what to write. ~Ron
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Ron, I took time to think about what you said. In my view, both approaches to poetry are the only true approaches. It’s just as painful (and rewarding) to think and approach art from a distance, as much as it is to bleed when you write. The problem with dark poetry today on WP (emphasis on the today), is that there is growing trend of cryptic verse devoid of any emotion. Sometimes, I give these writers a like because I think they’re still developing, but then I realize that there is no real angst, or pain. I understand that it’s difficult to write a confessional, but still, even a semi-confessional poem, or hell, a vaguely confessional poem should move a person’s senses. Having said that, there are very few poets left on WP who approach art the way you do. So whatever stance you decide to take in the future, you’ve helped me see a different angle to poetry too, my friend.
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