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Evening

from Event by Enemy of the Rose

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i saw a tiny aphid, enemy of the rose
slyly crawling up the vine by my side,
little did it suppose
i had the clippers poised to cut the head off at the leaf
but in its eyes i sensed defeat and slipped them back into their sheath.

i looked within and found the enemy of my soul.
i looked without at a circle of the world
through the peep-hole.
with such a peripheral handicap
it’s a miracle i say anything true -
it’s the futility of reflection, the impossibility of review!

cut off the withered parts of me
(and my insatiable need for company)
cut off the withered parts of me
like a twisted branch on a hibiscus tree!
cut out the rotten parts, and then
(despite how fruitless i have been)
cut out the rotten parts, and then
what’s left of me can bloom again!

only twenty-one and i feel my life has gone on too long.
i have no unifying themes to build my waning hopes on.
and nothing makes a person more grimly self-aware
than to realize she no longer prefers hope to despair!
oh, god, if you have the will to pity our condition,
if you can turn your holy eyes beyond our fear and cynicism,
i won’t ask to be remembered or looked upon with grace -
i only ask to be the shadow from the light that is your face!

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from Event, released November 13, 2021

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