The Poetry of
Joshua Gray

 

Rape and Breakdown
Blind Man's Rainbow, Volume VIII Issue 2, p.50

But mind the beach alone
Is difficult so I'll come with you.
Trust me. Besides I need a vacation too.
Your tangled nerves are breaking down;
My vocation change is due.

You know, now, it's just me.
He's gone, left. I aim to find out
If I can make it, when ghosts roam my house.
Come, though. The sun and I will walk;
The two of us, we will have the moonlit hours.

Could anyone predict the irony?
I came along to help you start
Anew, but you're too coiled
To hear - while you were at the mart
These two Jamaicans pounded me apart!

No, body, that is not my view at all.
It seems that pain is from within.
I see; you hurt. Okay.
So what? For these are not real men.
Instead, let's look ahead, and have some fun.

Forgiveness is blinded by
Illuminated loneliness.
I guess it's different though with you and me;
While I am no Hippolyte
I think you owe one big apology.

Well, yes, I see your point.
You are my flesh; I am your brain.
So this quarrel, I do not want it.
It's true: if you are dead, I can't live.
I think it's best we pack our things, and leave.

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