The Loudest Firework
Originally posted January 31, 2024. Small revisions to the enjambments, word choice, and a few new lines.
Before first grade was over the bully was not my bully as he moved his cruelty to Stanely and Lil Don. Before high school graduation— when his terrors were no longer in the lowest and tightest corners of a subconscious that I pray stays wrapped and constricted in caution tape the glutton for punishment in me can resist jus…
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