Shorts

Mike Essig
1 min readFeb 3, 2018

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You know
you are living
at the moment
a thorn tears
your flesh.

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You stalk
the sublime
like an
expert hunter
yet still
she slips
away.

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Poems domestic
or house broken
only fill empty
lines with nothing.

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The best poems,
immediately explosive
as orgasms.

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Making art is
treading water
until you can’t.

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Make one
moment durable.
Your work
is done.

If you like this piece, and can afford it, please take a moment and donate a few survival shekels.

Poverty lifts you up to the bottom…

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Mike Essig
Mike Essig

Written by Mike Essig

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.

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