Blank Check

Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readDec 11, 2017
ebook

Poetry is hard to find,
quite like love.
When you do, you must
write it like a check
you owe for allowing it
to express how the world
comes to mean anything at all:
to cover the debt you pay
for being, for flashing,
before the crumbling
of the day.

--

--

Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.