All are elephants
Tethered to crowds
Told to get lost
Gargantuan are appetites
But never a plate offered
Keeping face a tiring extreme
Relaxed when disciplined gaits flee
Anchored frigates at table
The underappreciated with outcast
Distinct are the cultures and class
The repudiated an exclave
A transplant of footing
Frigid to those alike
Not so discrete to the invisible ones
Amongst the murk nobody knows where to confide
Trumpeting like elephants tormented
Not so together?
Life feel obscene?
Don’t wail in the open
Most hazardous are the critics
The commotion of a frantic:
Is a life off tilt.
Raymond Hoffman has a background in political science and Southeast Asian Studies. He has taught in China for many years and currently is a fifth grade teacher in the Midwest. Poetry writing has been used by him as a coping mechanism for bipolar disorder for over a decade now. Sylvia Plath has always been a great source of inspiration, as has been Albert Camus.
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