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Bunny in Poetry & Free Verse

The Weight of The Public Gaze

Whenever I try to be

More then the asking price

In relation to you...

Whenever I break this mold...

Whenever I write this code...

I don't see no silhouette...

And the sun hasn't risen yet...

I feel like I've won the fight

Against the world's

Sweeping virus!...

...It's just me and my faculties

Hanging out on the line!...

My skin has that offshore scent,

Hairs prickle like fiber tents...

Blood makes it's own anti-bodies...

Yea, I run my own factory!...

And the criminal parasites

Don't have a clearance pass,

And though rodents scuttle through

I'm still taking chances!...

Yea, this dance ain't no

Power play!...

I'm here on the up and up,

And the shoulders

I rub against

Get a juiced potency...

Whenever I try to be

More then the asking price

In relation to you...

Whenever I break this mold...

Whenever I write this code...

I don't see no silhouette...

And the sun hasn't risen yet...

I feel like I've won the fight

Against the world's

Sweeping virus!...

It can't just be lucky draw...

I'm holding my monkey paw...

The corner you chased me in

Had it's blemish exposed...

So I jump over razor wire,

And I double back to my lot...

All the pleasures you've offered me

Only give off a sour scent...

I can't put on that service smile...

I must leave you in dust my child...

...Whenever I try to be

More then the asking price

In relation to you...

7/7/25

Bunny Villaire