# Amen

**Published by:** [Poetry in Motion Sickness](https://paragraph.com/@poetryinmotionsickness/)
**Published on:** 2025-01-19
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@poetryinmotionsickness/amen

## Content

a radio voice clicks on on a rainy morning's sunrise barely visible through the coffee sipping grog awakening adrenaline in the pinstriped prizoner of return calls and business lunches, over-worked and under-played, as he exercises frustration and flirts with ideas like "there must be something more" than the chit chat of knit wits in the claustrophobic confines of elevators "there must be something more" than strolling back to the cage by two when today's files (which haven't been filed) are the day of reckoning you knew would be coming to haunt, to chide, to fumble with the toys about you, stalling, stagnating, while the click clock tick tocks deadlines, dead lines, lines for the dead, in heat like southern Texas precious presure swelling until the prisoner like popcorn pops and drops and is served a a small rectangular box for acquaintences to poke and peep and remind themselves of the quaintences of days that have passed both sun and snow "there must be more" then penetrating deep into Mother Earth on a day like today hoping that some seed, some morsel, has not yet been tainted "there must be more" than starting again the tense struggle, to grasp, to breathe, to find a niche and inhabit it, hibernating, hoarding life's pleasures there must be a way" to jump start the creature within the creature that urgently needs to be needed or invent a new distraction that helps you forget, no matter how well you build you tenements, your roof will eventually leak even in your harbor, in the safe haven of your home, great dangers mustbe faced, right here, right now "there must e a way" to taste the madness that drives creation, to allocate some wretched scrap of security, and yet survive the daily dulldrum death that waits, lurking just outside your office window. ShareCollect

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