Friday, April 21, 2017

FLATTED FIFTH

There's nothing 
you could articulate  

that would 
make a good

defense. That's just it.
There's this

dissonance 
in you, 

and it 
really works in context.

Like a jazz chord—
but more 

primordial,
less 

complex, and easier 
to analyse

the quieter 
it gets—

it's that part of you 
who's silent

that seems to know
exactly what to do.

Which means—
when you talk 

you always 
come across

innocent
but blameworthy, too.