Things To Believe
written by: Jeff Weddle
The first illusion is joy
golden and flesh
hard breath
and auburn hair
across a damp neck.
Then comes rage
illusion second class
hot destroyer
of illusion one.
No damp neck
for you.
And apathy follows.
That’s real.
So sorry.
The last illusion
is forgetting
but you
knew that
already.
But here’s
the thing:
Everything happens
all at once
forever.
You know?
The sages wonder:
Why do we
even bother
with goodbye?
Jeff Weddle is a poet and writer living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He won the 2007 Eudora Welty Prize for Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press, and has also received honors for his fiction and poetry. The author of eleven books, Jeff teaches in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama.
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- Things To Believe - October 12, 2020
