Pledge

By Matthew Caley

Drugs. Alcohol. Little sister. And not necessarily by Trakl.
Such is my life. Thus I get by.
Even with this luminous canker on my wedding-tackle.
Yet if she would only pledge herself to me entirely

I would willingly give up the bawds and the Bacchanalia,
get a sinecure, grow; eat an avocado and die.

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