Thursday, September 5, 2024

when the whip comes down June 17, 2012

 


 Thank God for my cyber nanny, 

who has more common sense than I do,

 forcing me to keep from posting poems 

that might get me even deeper 

into trouble than I already am.

I want to stop posting completely, 

but I can’t ,

so sometimes post things

that I can slip by my nanny 

and still reveal how I feel,

 though wisely avoiding anything 

like the nuclear disaster 

I posted when I put up 

her roof top photo 

and she demanded I take it down,

and when I eventually did, 

promised to “burn my life”

if I posted anything else 

that displeased her 

a sadomasochist relationship 

in which she holds the whip, 

our livers governed by 

these psychotic rules

 where we struggle for our soul, 

not so much good or evil, 

right or wrong,

 rather right to exist.

I exposed too much, 

revealing what goes on inside me,

 which leaves me vulnerable 

as a sad sack fumbling along

 after her long, black boots.


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