There is this force like a gravity of the soulThere is this force that makes tragedy inevitable.
Not the popularized tragedy of the newspaper:
Not the inevitability of train wrecks and phone sex and letter bombs
that is another matter entirely.
There is this force that makes tragedy inevitable.
There is this force that brings the great low.
There is not a single one of us lacking a flaw.
There is not a single flaw which is not tick tick ticking away
right now at this moment.
Not the popularized tragedy of the newspaper
explosions: because in the real tragedy
the doctors will find themselves unable to heal even the injured.
This tragedy-bomb is lodged in some broken-deep place:
cancer-tumor-nitroglycerine.
The inevitability of train wrecks and phone sex and letter bombs
are a side effect and an outgrowth.
There are tragedies and there are tragedies
There is brokeness in me and so I will try and remake
the world in my broken image.