You awful human being —
 I revoke your significance

A peacock, whose ego is rice paper thin —
That explains everything

Verbal flames leap from your tongue
Gatekeeper! Clipper of wings

Resistant like the ponderosa pine
I’ve told your family and mine 

No longer susceptible to isolation by design
You’re cancerous. Without you I’ll be just fine

A protest against perpetrators of intimate partner violence (or domestic terrorist as I like to call them) and other repugnant humans who cause harm.

I should be sleeping but I’m narrowly awake.

Thank you, Merril and the dVerse team.

Photo by Emma Renly on Unsplash

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