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Gotcha!

Why do I have to contort?
To get your attention.
You’d pass me by if I didn’t.
Does that make me a show-off?
Or you a dullard?

Accept me how I am.
Sand in your loafers.
A trick on your tongue.
Gophers in my toaster.

Everything makes sense.
The taste buds lick the nose.
We love happenstance.
The weanie  grows.

Too many words are running wild.
Nobody will trust you if you’re meek and mild.
Unless they’re used to you
appearing out of the blue.
Ready to take off for a different age.

O my time is up.
I wish I knew when.
I’d repent to the devil.
For I have grinned.

Tell me where to go.
The A-bomb’s lost and found.
I can make it for the show.
Be pro-life for the sound.

Or free to choose.
Flick boogers at the sun.
Isn’t that a dainty thing?
You’ve watched me till I ‘ve won.

Published in Poetry