Poetry: Climactic Anti-Dissemination in Creative Writing

Climactic Anti-Dissemination
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A title setting you up
for something familiar and intelligent
when in reality it’s cynical and slighty lonesome.

Allow me to explain:

If I used the words cynical and pessimistic
You’d call me a liar.
If I used the words loving and pistic
You’d send me to fire.

Why?

You don’t believe that
   I can feel that way without
   the appearance of feeling it all.

If I put myself in your shoes
I’d become one with your life.
If I peak to your climactic soul
I’ll perish into dejectional strife.

Why?

Your perception of me has changed
   so much so that you can’t remember
   Your own definition of “Joe”.

©2001, Joe Jenkins