words are inert

by Marty Shambles

for Auden

it is not enough to say words

are inert. you have to say why

and how they’re inert but that

requires words which

just fucking sit there, being not

useless but… you know… just there.

imaginations of writers collaborate with imaginations of readers

and together they make something that matters, maybe for a

moment, maybe more and the words illuminate a holy picture show…

then to again be inert symbols

scrawling the walls of this prison.

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