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Pitch Forks and Hot fire!

Digging Deep

6 May

A raucous squawker
     hurtles past you screeching —
          careening over ruts and rocks
               of a steep ravine

No songbird, this Joe
     does not glance at you
     nor shift gaze
          from his cocky cyberchatter

Pitch forks and Hot fire!

Consider the caustic critique
     tossed into social’s hot skillet —
          sizzling like a raw egg
               on scorching cement

A splatter of grease
     singes skin –
          punctures your pride.

Pitch forks and Hot fire!

Life is a scuttle
     between sharp and sweat

But what if …

you pass that squawk box
     and notice he is just trying
          to hear himself?

You listen to your self …

and fathom           

how a fried egg served
     at the twitter table
          feeds a family of four

You are present
     for one moment
as he dies
     a thousand deaths

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