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AFTER "ZEN OF THE BROKEN" BY MINDY NETTIFEE
BY KAIJAII GOMEZ WICK
HoWrthen, to live:
there are many ways.
Joyful or dour,
frumpy or fucking anyone
and their sister too
or all at once, or one then the
other. But so many say
that the best way-
the only way-is the way
where you learn to grin
and hide the starry-eyed flinch
and let the rage fester-ooze-
until you find some poor
scapegoat's heart to eat.
I say: fuck that.
I say: spite can be
the best emotion of all.
Not to recover,
not to steal back the /
they gouged out
but instead to rebuild
or, better yet, survive.
Don't just shine
like fireworks over
their sad empty town.
Outpace them in every race.
Have a better ass,
better hair
sharper gleaming teeth at every step.
Taunt the inexorable them
on your deathbed. Win a hundred and eight
arguments and die with
the precious-as-vibranium
