BARE: Uncensored Poetry

30/30 Project Day# 13: I Am/Not/Your Guru

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I Am/Not/Your Guru

Modern-day saviours
They preach

Moths to sunlit
They flit

Happiness angels
They sing

Locusts swarm
They devour

Cannibals of hope
They prey

Paying disciples receive
1:1 attention:
Gaslighting.

Dollar store wisdom
Programming
Linguistic schemas

Upselling connections to
Like-minded tribe =
Dreams of belonging

They are the artless dodgers
who dream
Artful

The forked tongues of doublespeak.

WHAT IS BARE: UNCENSORED POETRY AND THE 30/30 Project?

In February 2024, I wrote and published a poem daily with Tupelo Press, a not-for-profit publisher in the United States of America. The sting in the tail was that the published piece had to be an…