Later

January 22, 2016

Fury
gathers force,
straining my residual
gullibility.
Why this pretense offered --
and accepted ?
When "Let's talk"

means
"Let's not, but pretend I
didn't say that."
When "Later"
grants reprieve
from here and now.
Surely, Geneva sanctions
murder

and outlaws saccharine poisoning
of souls?

- January 1985 -

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