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Tick, Tick, Tick
Nervousness in the Tick
Kindergarteners at the circus
Running Amuck
&
mocking me
Tock, Tock, Tock
Knocking at the door
Trying to find a rhythm
Like Poe’s
Hopeless LeNore
Or…
Tick ,Tick, Tick
Tock, Tock, Tock
Rock, Rock, Rock
Back & Forth
Tick, Tick, Tick
Eyes flicker
Like Morse Code
A strong foreBODEing
To my silence
*sigh*ing
Against the science
Of my heart & souls deFYance
Of the Clock
Tick, Tock
Kant & Locke
Can not free or explain or speculate
The violence inside this
Park of the unamused & distracted
Factored, & Fact Checked
I’m in tolerant
Of every fall & rant
This morning angst…iety
Christ, why me.
Tick at every, trigg…er
Trig…onometry couldn’t begin to explain
Hypothetically
Hyping me
Tock-ing, Toxically talking to me
On repeat
Rocking me to sleep, with every
Story of Black babies ripped form mothers arms
Rocking bodies, in the wind after necks snapped
Rocking grandmothers in churches
Sweating & Praying with choirs swaying
Believing for salvation
Rocking beat boxing, top rocking
Quick Shopping or Burning on Mommas
Rocking Mommas,
Ticking at the sight of dead bodies
Rocking Mommas,
Tocking
Talking over loud speakers
Crying over babies
Dying over babies
Driving people crazy
Tired of Rocking to the
DAMN
TICK
TOCKING
Of the fucking clock running out
Tick, Tick, Tick
Tock, Tock
Rock
….
Rest…
I guess I wish I could
Dis-appear
In crowds, crowding my mind
Eyes
Eyes full of wonder
Wander-ing
Kindergarteners at the cross
Tick, Tick
Tock, Tock
ROCK.
— Brandy A.