How to Starve Your Demons, or
Why I Stopped Looking at
Social Media After the 2016 Election
When I look at you,
peacefulness recedes.
The turquoise seas dry,
revealing their soft
underbellies, which
harden and crackle,
a vast desert of
shattered tempered glass.
When I look at you,
fragile as I’ve grown,
something in my heart
stirs—awakening
a sense of dread—that
lives apart from me,
a burning creature
eternal and dark,
who crept in and stayed
after he arrived.
So I endeavor
to starve my demon
by never looking,
even askance, at
you, summoning, and
ever beckoning
concealed in your blue
like a false hero.
(c) 2017, by Hannah Six
Image: Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's
"Descent into the Maelstrom"
"Descent into the Maelstrom"
by Harry Clarke (1889–1931),
published in 1919 (via Wikimedia)
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