Proponents

I turn to my thoughts

and they turn on me

turned around to the ground

W o r d S

tilting my pen upside down

we turn to one another

in this vicious twist

for strength as I insist

each and every

weakness wrought and unbent

from our mortal quest

true some are small

naive muscle-less ideals

predestined to fall with

not much fight at all

but others are block walls

that stave me overnight

as if building up the

biceps of my tongue

many bark back

in sarcastic semi-adolescent fun

while a rebel few have

demo-ed utter insolence

with a cut throat resistance

trenched in my deep sub-terrain

where they are training the super ego

with assorted weights and cables

camouflaged in the folds of my brain

meanwhile the shy do try

to hide albeit being entirely

visible from the backside

I never let these weaklings slide

pulling despite the whimpers

out by the diaper's edge

into broad daylight where

we will exorcise all these neuroses

and exercise our shoulders till

fully fit as proper orators

we've clotted and bandaged

our ink in literary fatigue

on a bonded leather writing mat

where we take our nightly

bows without regret

there's no Frenemy more worthy

Of Highest Respect

than the one that

mentally

whips you well

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