Red Tape

If another head breaks

Upon a stone wall...

Shouldn't the whole world

Feel it like a gymnasium

That shouts

With the echo of the balls

On court and players as

They chide?...

When a man in uniform

Beats a teen until

He's no longer recognized

As man

Shouldn't a ripple be felt

In the psychic world,

Or has the Internet, and

Media puree

Become a fully functional

Blind and gauze?....

Do you gaze through

Vented fingers so much now

That the shit is all a sickly blur?...

I'm just asking for a friend

I guess,

In between my vape,

And playlist...

Do I care more then the next one,

Well...

It would help to share the weight...

There is red tape on

My eyes tonight!...

There is red tape on

Your mouth...

There is red tape piling

To the sky!...

There is too much tape

To count...

Can't you see the stuff of

Nightmares in

These threaded webs

We weave?...

I've been knocked down

From the mountaintop...

I am down here

On my knees...

1/15/25

Bunny Villaire

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