I Climb The Poetic Slide

When I started blogging I remembered the story of the slide. In first or second grade I got in trouble for climbing the slide itself rather than using the ladder. I did it not to be daredevil but because that was the way that I was comfortably unafraid. I think about that now as I write in a way that I'm comfortable. Some things have been pounding at my mind and soul but I'm not comfortable writing about it straight up the ladder so instead I climb the poetic slide.

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When my friend Seth saw Bang The Drum Slowly
his father turned to him as they left the theater
and muttered, "man's inhumanity against man:"

Every second that I grow older
I see more and try to understand
more than G-d and his G-dly plan
man's inhumanity against man

We pray to G-d while pushing each other
We buzz saw through words we mechanically utter
We hurt each other as only we can
and blame G-d for our inhumanity against man