I wonder at the morality
of pulling you from the crowd
in banal attempts to make you
into something I allowed
each pen stroke a manipulation
an ideological breach
through which to throw a body
another dead thought to teach
let me tell you how to live
as if a jailer to your soul
each idea you have yourself
flayed upon the whipping pole
how is this permissible
this imposition of a dream
homogenizing the others
until they are part of our theme
even this set of questions
troubles my sense of control
as if what I have to say
has any relevance at all
(January 28, 2015)
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