I was brave when I wore pink
Does that mean Winnie the Pooh…
Courage
Sometimes when I haven’t told
anyone
the person I intend to tell
moves on….
What do you give when you have nothing
left to give?
Do you ever really have nothing left?
It feels that way, I realize,
but isn’t there a reservoir
of something adjacent to guts,
darker than courage,
grimmer than heart?…
He runs through a temple,
dodging spiked walls,
a giant marble rolling to crush
him, poison-tipped arrows…
Can you be an addict
to excitement
and also want nothing
to change, nothing
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