Happy Place

<p>IMPLIED SECRETS:</p><p>Poetry slides an incisor</p><p>behind our addiction to living</p><p>rips essence from its bones</p><p>and grinds us chunk to paste</p><p>half sustenance</p><p>the rest waste.</p><p> </p><p>Verses are beds for the senseless</p><p>masturbated to perfect sense.</p><p> </p><p>Sentiments and sympathies</p><p>in micro-doses</p><p>of self-psychoanalytics</p><p>affixed to symptoms</p><p>ticks and epiphanies.</p><p> </p><p>Come inside</p><p>we have odes to sing. ***</p><p> </p><p>Joey comes out swinging at past traumas with moments of grieving healing and loving in this collection of (mostly) free verse poems and original doodle artwork.</p>