WRITING: IF I TOLD YOU - A POEM

DEMOCRISES - A POEM

if i told you

What

would

you

say

If

I

told

you

that

you

were

not

a

live?

What would

you do

if I

told you

you were

a cadaver?

What would you do

if I told you

to be alive

you had to be

conscious...s-s-s

In a non-reactive

state beyond the twitch

of the reactionary violent curve

or cobbled static street corner?

What would you do if I told you

that an ideologue does not think but simply

reacts to every challenge in a twitching cadaver’s

dance of death, to a dead-beat dogma?

What

would

you

do

if

I

told

you

that

you

can

be

re

sus

i

tat

ed?

Jack Stanza