I want to celebrate the person who says
what everyone else is thinking
the person who knows thoughts are not Gregorian chants
or mint leaves sweetened with lime frost
even if it strikes the piñata of polite conversation
until truth hailstones to the floor
even if it sounds like crows flapping their wings
inside the hollow of a bell tower.
I want to celebrate the person who pours water
over tombstones so the souls of the dead are not thirsty
the person whose mind tracks the natural curve of the spine
anything else is artifice or disease
a scoliosis of the brain.
From: https://souvenir-lit.squarespace.com/donelle-dreese
Date: 2017
By: Donelle Dreese (1968- )
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