Joey Cloudy online

Is it impossible to write

Is it possible to write  

while listening to Damien Rice  

covering Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah  

 and the mood suppressors keep their chemical boots on

the back of my neurons neck and now I must

learn to cipher again,

impermanence again,

to see again.

What else have I  

forgotten? I no longer write

poetry. I’m a new animal now   

an unintelligible beast of hieroglyphs when I break  

my tongue the poem’s  

Shatter into a thousand tiny mirrors

razor blade confetti dancing on the wind in the moonlight.

From the book of poems titled

Diary of weaponized white suburban tears.

the Cutter chronicles.