Hope is Hogwash
stop reading now
Published in
Dec 14, 2023
Trying to paddle upstream
from a raging waterfall
frantic in a
styrofoam ® canoe,
no paddle, hands frozen
splashing water into hull,
soaking you; even so
styrofoam ® floats, death
not from drowning.
It’s falls that get you, dashing
smashing crashing falls,
every bone smithereens,
small sharp tearing fragments
kill you from inside.
You never should have read
after the explicit title.
This is self-inflicted,
entirely on you.
~ Wry Welwood,
December 2023.
