Let's workshop this poem about a man driven by primal desperation to engage in destructive behavior as a means of escaping a life he finds unbearable but lacks enough courage to leave directly.
Morse Code of Distress
In twilight’s bustle
blooms this boyhood compulsion
to scrape the weapon, concealed
in your hoodie clutch,
along the urban textures—
bricks, railings, dumpsters—lining
a subliminal hunt for an irreversible
to pluck you from a life
you lack the nerve to exit.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)