Day: July 23, 2023

cosas sagradascosas sagradas

my heart was once an open wound on my sleeve,
dripping on the ground as i walked,
spattering my shoes.
look here, i’ll open it up a little wider and we can take a peek inside—
see? presto-shamzo, there’s nothing to see, this empty
receptacle that maybe once contained all my
blood and all it stood for.
now it’s a space to let, unfurnished,
and i feel the need for a clean shirt and a shoeshine.

(Copyright 2023 by Tetman Callis.)

“A      I can see there’s a lot of lawyers in here, so it ‑‑

Q       It’s D.C., sir. You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a lawyer.”

– Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, “Interview of General William Walker, December 13, 2021”