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Is one's darker side more vulnerable and less sincere

is one's subconscious the alter-ego of one's schooled

impulses and could this promote fragments of frantic

fear

I wonder how many people I've at least once mentally

killed

verbally I've done so, many many times at the hands of

my subtle yet predatory skill

very private thoughts that appear at offbeat moments

an make me stop and stand utterly still

its as if I'm afraid someone will catch me getting

a secret kind of perverse thrill

so I dampen my urges and hide quietly behind my words

and books

I'm not so very difficult to spot to he who with

only his heart carefully looks

to be a poet you have to know truth and the tricks of

the trade

behind the sweetness and sincerity you must wisely

hide the deadly edge of the mental blade

everyone almost always gets his own back and usually

in spades

life is not only black and white with a touch or two

of gray

it has many other facets or harder uninterpretable

shades

as one unfairness surfaces another falls and fatally

fades

while running the gambit of mass emotions

this discord only gets grazed

you may or may not need what it is that I daily do

but that isn't the issue

the issue is

indirectly

you see

I need you

what I write may not have the same majesticness of

Beetthoven or Bach

but I back what I say, think and write to the very

hilt

that gives my emotions plausibility and writer's stock

sure, I don't push logic to the limits

like Kirk's right hand man Mr. Spock

emotions run the entire show in my series

and I'm no chip off anybody's block

writing as I do servers one very important purpose

it keeps my fanny out of perpetual hock

and that I can assure you is no pun intended

or careless crock.............

( written Aug 29,1991 pm)