Fool by Joey Cloudy
“centuries ago it had an e at the end”
- h. f.

I speak to you without
the faith offered by the Pope
But “the illusion of faith
offered by drugs
rock music
and contemporary poetry”
I speak to you with a mouth full of broken vows and blood
but the voice of the void
echoes between the lines
I own nothing
yet I grow rich in my poverty
I never seem to run out of words to eat