crew cut

Stand tall
thump your chest hard
harder as the
ribs crack and try to escape
the fracture of your
breath of depth
Shake your head as if
sweat drops were
on rides from a carnival of countenance
flying this way and that
know who you are
and push it hard
into all of you
and your reality
live it
but always know when to cry
as you roll up the things you hoist
cry,
then cry even harder