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Barely Aloof
published in Poet's Haven Digest, The Distance Between Insanity and Genius Anthology
poetry

​In the flaring blaze
of screens that cloak
where calm is vanquished

gnawed open by the frenzy
of haranguing homilies
empty blathering

screeds fevered
In the smoldering glare
of culling caches

where absurdity prowls
jawing and jiving
in some parley for

quelling neurosis
apprehending brilliance
feeding delirium

In the gleaming seclusion
of eyeless obscurity
where illusion is king

stoked by the alienation of
gawking myopia
raging folly

furious groping
In the flickering shroud
of clamoring crap

where no one ceases
disproving sermons
foolish spiels

improbable perfection
lies
a whispered utterance

a prescription for
unmasking the gods
of deliverance

or
villainous ruin
a single space

font anything you choose
an interval radiated with
liberation

reclamation
a breadth ransomed by
the false idols of

commenting
posting
sharing

a syllable in which
concealing flirts
with exposing

a barely aloof
distance
between

​insanity and genius.