Polymorphous Perversity

This was inspired by posts from two-bees-poetry on tumblr. It's kind of a "concrete poem" I guess, where the structure and layout on the page form part of the poem. It's essentially three poems - vertically for Rodney, vertically for John, and horizontally for them both combined. I like challenging myself with poetic structures and this was an interesting diversion. It's posted on AO3: Dyad.

Of course it's a nightmare to display on-line, so there's the text which might not display properly, especially on phones. Maybe if you turn the phone to landscape? Then there's an image of the poem which will be better for mobile if images are okay for you.

 

Rodney	John
i didn't want	to lose friends again,
real friends,	i can't do it, gotta be
all the time	shielded, putting up walls,
competing, being right.	means i'm all
false front, fakery,	smirk and snark.
told myself	i didn't care, careful
lies, hid behind	what others saw,
bluster, sarcasm,	what i let them see,
and words…	worked for the military so long
i weaponized words.	it's NDAs all the way down.
but you,	you barged in
called me team	broke my walls
saved my life	stole my food
made me laugh,	wouldn't take no.
you're my friend,	my best friend, and
maybe more.	i hope more.

 

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