Eight: refutation (poetry series)
refutation
because every vice wears thin, vice and fame
every fame makes damned
the what she eats and what she wears
and what’s she doing? Standing there
at the window looking
She looks at men who stare
because we treasure leavings
leave treasures fast maturing
up next, another failure-fetish-failure
in vicarity seeks electrification
wagers against inertial burdens
bones defeated by bodies
no longer lives of dreams, only lives
muzzily observed with a slow blink
be better browsers of felinity
find hearts in heart-shaped boxes
wings in buckets
causes and passions, hilarity, hates and betrayals
thumb movements
losses leave the grieved in a stupored freeze
and the half-slumbering student has the same eyes
refutation
thesis
argument
(2021, Stephanie Foster)