Jaguar Shark

I regard you as a poet does a gun;
Or a ghost a foggy night.
Somewhere in the back;
way, way back of my mind -
Like unreturned phone calls 
or blue-collar Catholic guilt 
or the inability to lie to a child -
Making coherent decisions will remain remote,
uncharted waters.

 Kettledrummer.

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