I am not one to satiate my whims.
Prefer instead to let them fester, to
germinate & bloom beneath my skin
into full-blown neuroses that I nourish
with lethal doses of Coltrane in
lonely rooms at 3am, with thoughts
of you that scratch & claw, searching
for an exit Others tend to their whims
like schoolgirls fussing over broken nails
or split ends, never once realising
that what you've got inside you
can never really get out, and a whim is
only a whim, whether it manifests
as the Holocaust or the sudden desire
to walk to the shops for cigarettes.
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