Wednesday, March 19, 2025

HUNG JURY

You know 
what they say: options 
beget disparity, 

and disparity 
invites the contrast 

which heightens your 
confusion.

Consider 
the way your 
head's tense crest 

always manifests 
emergencies: wild eyes 
under rampant hair,

gone wild 
from the scent 
of predicament. 

Consider, too, the fact 
that you're almost 
exactly sixty percent water—

and that water, 
in all cases, 

rides with gravity, 
pursues ease. 

Which part 
of your being, then,
begs the most attention—

defense or prosecution? 
Which words, 

once incepted, 
are speaking 
even now

for your deadlocked caucus 
of hacked actions?