

N.V. N.V.N.V. by ~TheWaywardProject
is not a sin.
It's thirty years of man condensed
into an obituary
two initials long.


Hold Me Up I saw a man walking down a roadHold Me Up by ~bassforsoldier
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with
block-letter packages, an M on one side,
the wind pushing him back and forward as
he struggled up to the Post Office. I held
in my lap my diabetes diet, which my doctor told me
was a good way to lose weight, and
I saw this man walking towards me, dressed in
mismatched scrubs and a walking-jacket, packages
clutched to his chest, mouth open, sixty-eight years
of misery running down his cheeks, howling
back into the uncaring wind, one stumbling foot
in front of the next, wife gone, children far away,
alone, alone, no one to hold him
against the wind, no one to l