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HOW TO LIVE WITH SOMEONE
Raze the house you live in
every five years.
Banish sincerity.
Abolish peace.
Do nothing to silence
the war drums.
Paint every texture
with your favorite color.
Then slash them
with a knife.
Disinter the bodies
of ancestors
and sit their crumbling corpses
in dining room chairs.
Decorate rooms
with subconscious forms.
Make love
like creating something disfigured.
Copy nature
but only the violence.
Metamorphosize often.
Tear down your new look.
Pretend the abyss
is actually infinity.
Be outdated.
Get your notions
from the past.
The Iron Age for example.
Work on a formula
that proves you
no longer exist.
Confuse nothing with something.
And love with everything.
About the Author: John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, Dalhousie Review and Blood And Thunder. Work upcoming in Hollins Critic, Redactions and California Quarterly.
