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The Midpoint

June 13, 2019
By mcheungzheng8944 BRONZE, Brooklyn, New York
mcheungzheng8944 BRONZE, Brooklyn, New York
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When the ice melts off your fingertips

That’s when I shall puncture the glass

Playing the strings of your lungs 

How many more vices

 

Madness came to visit you with a heavy knock

Haunting the past while

The beatniks add an extra beat 

To the melting salad that drips 

 

You and you sit side by side

At an old diner that serves meat milkshakes

Covered in the remnants of your country

This is what you fight for

 

Blood with no scars 

Wounds that face brother to brother

A cup of coffee falls from a seizure

The fog is clearer than ever

 

Justify it with the shadows

Littered scattered and battered

The tension has been distributed

You can wave the causes till they forget


The author's comments:

Inspired by Andre Breton and the combination of surrealism and anarchism, my poem ended up becoming a modern take on the repercussions of gun violence and American intervention in foreign affairs. I also took inspiration from the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. The poem ended up getting meaning from my stream of consciousness and I think that was the type of process that does help spur creativity. 


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