Rickety Bridge
Fizzle fizzle
can’t stop the sizzle
Crackle of the Big Bolt
A single strike
through the skull
Split the corpus callosum
that sanity-saving
rickety bridge
and exist in
eternal duality
Forever now
of two minds
Each incapable
of reaching
over the abyss
for the cordial handshake
Or of offering the kind comfort
of a friend
who can see behind your eyes
and say
“I understand”
Forever now
of two minds
One attempting
to steer the ship
The other
overboard
and drowning
in spirit
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