“Futility”

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The dollars in words I write for the reader pressed to know my life

Though I’m singing common notes, I am fresh air to the tortured listener

I am bread crumbs for the hungry

I am intimate with their faithless faith

 

Gather around, dogs and brainless

We will waste oxygen together 

In a collective consciousness

As we sleep away our passions 

And leech off of the world 

 

What a racket of white noise

Such tinnitus

Such deafening silence

Is what I deserve for twisting language 

Into a formful nothingness