Surrender

David Olimpio
Dog Is Us
Published in
Dec 21, 2020

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it is unbecoming to surrender your’n self
to a Bald Man who wants to take
your’n ball only to throw
it forth and yon

I know he actually likes that I keep it
locked in my jaw, even when he lays
down the law, tries to affect
a drop situation, innit

he pretends to get all strong and bossy, but
he is only fallen, lost, see that
bastard has no idea what he
likes or wants from a bitch like me

I have never dropped a thing
that I did not decide
myself to
drop, and he knows it

he should learn to trust it, his own
feelings, his own
dealings, joyfully surrender to
the thing in himself he finds in me

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David Olimpio
Dog Is Us

Writer. Trader. Occasional dog poet. Hydrant and train aficionado. Publisher of Atticus Review, Fugitive Words. Author of This Is Not a Confession.