nascent
raze how many thoughts
have died in the maw
of my mind, devoured
by more urgent ideas
before they could
shape themselves
into something
worth saving?

it's always
the beautiful ones,
struggling to be born,
that wrap the cord
connecting embryo
to fountainhead
around their necks,
mistaking the wet
warmth of incipient
dawn for a day
done and dusted.

i bury them all
where i know
they'll never
be found.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from