A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Monday, March 06, 2023

except it isn't

If it's a crime that
you hang in my eyes,
twisting hard swung
in my mind and heart;

If it's a crime that you
make of me art, a museum
sprawl of fixed statues and
portraits of me caught reacting,
as you play your part;

If it's a crime 
that you've commandeered 
every ounce of my language
and meaning, and tongue;

I pronounce in this case:
the whole wide world,
not guilty! By reasons insane, 
and a sentence:
deserved,
but
unwon. 

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