This is tempting,
this is just on my tongue
and it just this little thing that maybe I should do.
I don't have to do it
and it's not good for me
but what's one more for the road or the highway?
Like a dread inside me
knowing but not abiding
sprinting forward like a fumbling cavalcade.
Running feverish
and dancing dervish
desperate and wild clinging to habit and want.
Just a stroke
or a toke,
or a poke,
look
took
peek
sneak
leak
bite
smite
light
or blight
and afterward release
sitting limp in peace
and exhaling I really want to stop again.
-Matthew Koutzun
