Flawed Relations

A Poem by Austin Harvill

Kind of funny, meant for those times when girls frustrate me.

Reverse your mind to a downside position to rehearse the upsides of sideways thinking. Realize the unreality of falsity in my truth. Women are not shotty bodies or gaudy hotties that men may lobby around. They sound off in silence through body-language inaudible. Men refuse to bring light to the darkness of their instinctual intellect. We see not the movement of your hurt and quandary but instead we see if you can work or do laundry. We apply inapplicable solutions to problems with no answer. We refuse to understand but instead undermine the effects of painful healing. We complain about football and never listen when you call. We refrain from your footfalls if we think you will stand tall. Instead we should crawl upwards to the low ground where we might begin to build high tunnels of love. You want us to quickly slow down to obtain intangible footholds. We go too fast for the slow moving traffic of caring. These are men’s problems that we undertake in an attempt to overcome the backwards progress.