Counter-Insurgency

I’m told I’m in a hectic age –
but I refuse to bow
to notions that purport to gauge
the wherefore and the how

of trafficking through consciousness
as if it were a sport
too random not to be a mess,
too frantic to report.

My mind asserts hegemony –
it need not lose the lease
that lets the where-and-when of me
stake out its plot of peace.

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