brings a hatred of compassion
we try boundaries, test Buddhism
but bastardise concepts.
Alice reads Lucia Berlin's
Tiger Bites to me on Woodhouse Ridge and
when she says ‘I was dying to cry, be held…
oh what we won't do for just a little comfort’
I collapse into mud a heap of meat.
I become the monumental inhale
of a Buddhist, a heart that weighs the
cost of gold, in Leeds, in March, like an
August Sleepwalker. The waiters eyes linger
too long on my eyes in Coffee On The Crescent.
I walk around Hyde Park until I strangle
thought; coveting, raging. Inside a cascade
of poetry. Blood burns pushes rushes in
hushed crush. A poet is architect, designer,
void, of worlds, compels, compels;
the hatred of compassion,
the hatred of compassion,
the hatred of compassion,
the hatred of compassion.
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Aqeel Parvez is a widely published poet and spoken word performer from Bradford, UK. He runs the publisher / podcast / events promoter - MALNOURISHED INTELLECT and co-hosts the podcast & poetry night - Poets Talking Bollocks w/ Keith Fenton. He is also the author of numerous chapbooks. His new book CARTOON SUICIDES is out now.
Aqeel Parvez is @aqeelparvez and @ap.writer