FONT
Each pen stroke
forms a pigmented figure
obscure characters
both in letter and image.
Scratched, scrawled,
sprawling and spidery
sinisterly sibilant.
My madness is laid bare
an executioner’s arcing axe-strike
severing mind and memory
from flesh and bone vessel.
These words-a manifesto-
scribbled on newspaper edges,
bar napkins, and envelope backs
incoherent and indecipherable
were they worth it?