Elucidating Questions

Come, sit,

Beautiful owl it may hurt

You didn’t do it

My stepbrother who watched and circulated child porn

He did it

This thing I learnt about today that is close but far away

He did it

The boy who took me outside of the church and challenged me to beat him or he’d molest me more

He did it

You’re not a danger to society you’re not a deviant you’re not not not not

You’re not

I look in your face and I see that scared child who sits in a chair and tells the world he did it

But he doesn’t know why

But he did but you didn’t you

Didn’t

You’re not

Dangerous

Scary

You don’t scare me I don’t feel that strange division of the earth between me and you

I have this fucked up intuition, but it’s right when I do

Call me blind call me lost call me indoctrinated

Or whatever word you use for the hated

Owl

Jupiter

Dionysus

I dropped that one because I thought it might hurt after all this crap but come on now

You’ve got all three in you don’t you?

The electricity of you spinning whirling on a stage the wisdom that comes through in every page about the party that won’t end or the fun that won’t die

I didn’t connect you to him to blame you I tried to explain that Zeus/Jupiter was different and new in me

I didn’t know it was coming

But I had a fucking inkling

Didn’t I?

I showed my Darkside as your accidental behest

I know it’s the worst I know it’s hardly the best but

You don’t belong in a corral

You don’t belong behind bars

Who Has Seen the Wind

There was an owl in a cage kept there by a drunken monster man

The owl outside my window

The ones I’ve seen everywhere

Human justice

Is fucked

But we’re on your side

And I love you