Another Wasted Image
I would not complain
If I could find
The happiness
I see in the photos
Of other people
Or reveal the faces
Behind the voices
In a book I could
Not finish
Too many voices
Spoil this soup
Just as too many
Faces make me feel
I've missed something
I can never find
So I tell myself
To keep reading
As the obcession
Pulls me into a smile
On a body
I'll never have
Barry G. Wick
Invisible
This is me
Outside alone
Sitting on the knoll
Looking west
At the city below me
Through grass
And pine trees
I am like I will become
Separate and different
The sun in my face
Thinking of nothing
Being nothing
Being with no one
Because I was raised
By a lonely woman
Who shopped every day
For herself
Because shoes and clothes
Filled the hole inside of her
Once a year she'd shop for me
Or give me stupid clothes
At Christmas I'd wear once
Like her closets full of dresses
And shoes
She'd cook dinner while
I practiced piano
Yelling at me to play
It again
Or angry at me
Enough to slap
Or trot out for her image
So I created different worlds
Than the one I was in
With puppets or dreams
Because no friends lived
Next door
Our house was alone
Where my parents were alone
Where I was alone
At the end of our road
On the side of a hill
Behind lonely pines
Invisible
Barry G. Wick
Unlimited
Unlimited does not mean
Unlimited
In any other language
like American English
Unlimited would mean
there is no limit
please note the small letters
Unlimited means a limit
not unlimited
In the world of smartphones
unlimited means
they will cut your service
at a limit they believe
to be enough for you
you piece of shit customer
Spend your money for no limit
you will get a limit
your money ends
when they say it ends
There isn't even an option
for no limit or as the word
promises
UNLIMITED
And so I believe I have
reached my limit
and will write nothing more
My patience has a limit
My words have a limit
and so I am cutting my reader
off right...
but, my name is free
Barry G. Wick
Bat Shit
I'm certain this isn't some crazy notion
of why the world has used this phrase
to denote one kind of sanity
Let us review
Insanity
Insane
Crazy
Bizarre
Odd
Loony
Off the rocker
Lost the marbles
One sandwich short of a picnic
Lights are on and nobody's home
Shit for brains
Crazy as a soup sandwich
Crazy as a dog in a cat factory
and a few thousand other references
to personal oddities and limitations
plus all the psychiatric diagnoses
But to be truthful
we are living in a world now
that truly came from bat shit
I've been in my home many months
I fear going out because
a virus has attacked our nation
and our leader has a voided skull
Between anti-maskers who think
liberty gives them license
to infect everybody
and the anti-vaxers waiting
in the sidelines for a vaccine
they will tell everybody not to use
I only want to survive without illness
or death
Truly
this is all bat shit crazy
Barry G. Wick
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