Composition

Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readNov 9, 2017
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Be a beautiful
loser of life.

Sing out your
broken song,

the only words
that fit your mouth,

loud and clear
into the teeth

of the waiting,
silent abyss.

Make a liturgy
from despair,

chant it into
the hollow air.

Keen your blues.

Call that a life.

Name that a win.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

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