A poem about communication and self-help. Being defiant.
Author's Note:
Searching for Friends On A Dating App
Joining A Book Club To Find Friends To Do Anything But With
Treating Yourself With Harmful Ingredients
Join Self Help Groups And Don't Talk A Word.
To reach out is a step on many a ladder.
It takes recources. It can be counterintuitive.
Stranded in a hole in the ground, you would not find me passively observing the person using their teeth to shape the wooden cutlery into a rung.
Kurt Tallert said "I will transform into a ladder and climb up myself".
I say it was always about being the ladder, never to climb out of the hole.
A foxhole is a home.
Domesticated paws on vinyl flooring. Trained to sit at a desk for 8 hours.
Peeing on random spots on the carpet. It just shouldn't be mine.
Throwing away YOUR books. Rallying in MY street.
Defiant.