stage_fright
raze "how do you hide
from nothingness?"
he asks me.

i don't have an answer.

he sits behind a small desk,
refers to it, then slides
his spine sideways.

that's how he wakes up:
to another young
stranger on the couch.

he isn't even that old.
probably thirty-eight minutes.

it's not catharsis_ if
being away from people
is the calm you need.

and there is something
psalm-like about holding
a song in your hands at 4:21.
because 4:22 seems wasteful.

i'm not the one making noise.
it's someone else with
their feet under the stage.
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what's it to you?
who go
blather
from