precious unfolding
     such are the terms
     of disappointment
yearning to be free

          where to  begin?
     which topic?
    state of the toilet, on the fleeting
glimpse of mom's house? for a
   split second, I was there—
waking up in my room—
   with the bathroom behind me,
my brother no longer sharing—
and I was still 19.

recent ___ plays a factor,
   rising like the unseemly in  my
      disquiet mind.
   expanding like the rebellion
     overtaking the patriots.

we are not amused, no, who can laugh
     in such times?

the unhinged mind wanders to and fro,
the mind as a flapping screen
   door, keeping out the small
flies, letting in the more intelligent
     and mischievous
                    ones.