Wednesday, January 6, 2021

THE OBSTACLE

It's a thrill 
we get 

in our bones, 
this self-
loathing.

Not only 
to be part 
of the problem 

and to know it— 

but to rule over 
the revulsion,

to hold 
the solution 
so close

that it chokes, 

to slaughter the fatted 
calf of disgust—
as if feeding 

off the heat 
and the bile
and the friction 

of the swift 
and brutal 
murder 

of momentum.