Exhuming destiny (written with John Sweet)

by Gary Jurechka   Feb 2, 2006


Why do i move toward my future
with such lemming instinct resignation,
the faint simulcra of baby pigeons
in the blind spot of my eye,
the catechism of critical mass
as elusive as contentment's kiss

or this

my past on broken legs
dragging itself behind me
no matter how many
thirteenth story windows
i jump from

now salicious thoughts
taint
morals and morale,
leave me lost
in the present

or this

buried alive today
clawing my way out,
up, into
the thinning november
air

not an escape from faith so much
as a blind fumbling
towards the warmth of burning
witches

i will number you
among them

-John Sweet and Gary Jurechka

November 26-December 10, 1998

(Note:This piece was a collaborative work betweeen both author's listed and should so be credited)

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