Pretend to enjoy the view,
hiding your goddamned fear of heights -
You owe it to yourself
to not let everyone down.
Your father told you
that if anyone ever hit you,
no matter who or where,
you will hit them back.
Maybe not the best advice,
but more coherent than
anything you ever learned in college.
Still you hoped for clarification
explanation -
what is your policy on emotional abuse?
And the self-esteem issues don't seem
best resolved through sheer force of will
looking out the thirty-third story window
over segregated neighborhoods
and Newark burning
feral and real
unlike anything in this cage.
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