building a better defense

[godream]

the best poetry is grandly offensive.
it doesn't push little buttons for a cheap giggle
it doesn't sob in the quiet of a hidden diary
it isn't content with just one little meaning
and it never wanted to leave you saying 'huh?'
-- but 'ohhhhhhh' --
it won't apologize for itself in ambiguity,
yet it will never take the obvious road to invade your core.
petty four letter words are not enough for it
it bites like a needle in crisp short sentences
bludgeons with obscure references and strings of syllables
leaving spectacular craters in your soul
and best of all slices neatly
so that you won't realize you're broken
till the very
last
line.

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_{I felt I needed to write this. *shrugs* It's a perspective. And yes, I do realize the itty-bitty hypocrisy in the third line. Then again, this isn't quite *hidden*...}