Vinegar

Hand typed on to 6x6” recycled sturdy card stock.

Vinegar

I am convinced

there is nothing more hopeless

than constant positivity —

the sheer tyranny of it.

I would rather

sleep in the darkness

& eat the fruit of sadness

taste the bitter wine

& make grief a brother

take up my cross

then, in waiting, discover

how death can lose its sting.