Civilization is trying to destroy me.
And it’s doing it by language.
It would’ve been so much easier
just to have fought a bunch of demons.
There’s a playbook for that.
I’ve had, however, no method
for stealing fire from a sky god.
I’m dealing with Big Pharma here,
and a shrink who insists
on using the word “Chronicity”.
Damn, there’s got to be a structured
ritual to resolve
this dullness.
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Matthew Freeman is a poet from Missouri who’s had several books published and appeared in many journals. His new one, I Think I’d rather Roar, should be out soon with Cerasus Poetry. Find him on Twitter! @FreemanPoet
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image: Amateur photographer and author Andrea Damic (Sydney, Australia) has words published or forthcoming in 50-Word Stories, Paragraph Planet, The Dribble Drabble Review, 50 Give or Take (Vine Leaves Press) Anthology, Spillwords, The Centifictionist, The Piker Press and elsewhere with her art featuring or forthcoming in Rejection Letters, Door Is A Jar, Fusion Art’s Exhibitions, Welter at the University of Baltimore and elsewhere. You can find her on TW @DamicAndrea or linktr.ee/damicandrea.
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