Verse // Viscera: Volume 1
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Verse // Viscera - Brian Dougherty
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Humility In The First Person
Where In The Simile Am I?
A cogent simile: an architect’s building –
a source of pride, an accomplishment through time;
moments pass, structures fail or fall;
or get the sweet kiss of a wrecking ball
all in the name of progress or time
while the architect watches idly by.
But where in the simile am I?
Parental Advisory
I feel it important to state that I support the lost cause. Instead of trying to figure out what’s wrong I’ll just sit and play another song as I wait for you to wake up.
You’re the paper tiger
and I’m the lighter that doesn’t work,
but now we’re in a gas filled room.
My spark is still good and I care less for my plastic
than you do for your folds.
Let the mediums and the medias bastardize a cause.
Those who come within an inch of death have us a story. Those ones who are dead don’t really do well at telling stories, and he exacerbated the degrading of his company in his out-loud narrative – by using words like exacerbated
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