shrink/sunk

my being shrinks
at this level of cynicism
hitting
beyond the point break
Schlemiel
anti-Schlemiel
it all won’t work
when the echoes
of the feelings…
ripple through the words
in waves of trauma

heavy red clouds
you said
obscurity
there’s no ambiguity
in this resentment
this grudge
I can't
carry it with me
shrink
sunk
shrunk

all conventions rejected
religion, manners, housing, dress, or decency
rejected….

I stop this
now
roll up
black shirt sleeves
…let’s rebuild

this edifice of light and beauty