Entry #5 - Poetry

[acoustics1220]

Your way is not the only way
What do I have to pay?

Please listen; can I finish what
I’m saying? We need change.

Our biggest hurdle has yet to come but
I feel like we’re in range.

Don’t do this
This can be fixed

Listen to the soda hiss
Now, tell me- what have I missed?

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Please listen to me! What
are you talking about, you can pay with a cut,

right there. That’s right, blood. No,
you’re going to listen to me this time. Take that bow

off. I know we do, but can’t you see I’m trying to talk?
Stop interrupting me! In range? I need a walk.

Leave me alone.
That’s what I’ve been trying to do, don’t answer the phone---

Are you serious? I’m not thirsty,
and no, I don’t want to talk to Kirstie.

© MH
Two poems, responding to each other [Couplets]