Wednesday, February 16, 2022

CASE CLOSED

To those 
of us 

who've 
hurt others 
most, 

the far scarier 
premise 

is: there's 
no such thing 
as ghosts.

Think of all 
the soulless 
afflictions 

we secretly 
never hoped 
we'd outlive,

all the harms 
we expected 

to dog us 
for years:

defiantly 
silenced, 

quit, done
away with—