a guitar string found after the bombing

a guitar string found after the bombing

the genius

preoccupied with solving the world

with numbers

and souls of renaissance blues

and balance

when scales of empathy 

don't measure correctly

in freaked out logarithms

teachers preach

but the genius

will teach

others to mimic

graphic equations

and pretend the sum of all the pretense

will shatter war and poverty

and suicide

and the reading glasses lying beside the bed

will adhere to the ear

of the follower

who is as blind 

as the teacher

and as genius

as the one who wrote songs

just before the music

heard itself silenced.

erin-cilberto

10/10/24

Reviews

[Tumi]

"Powerful poem about finding balance in a troubled world. Beautiful imagery and thought-provoking themes."

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, tumi,
j.