Character

Through your eyes

channeling

rapids I've never

paddled through

At times I feel like Buffalo Bill

the way I scavenger

stitch together suits of skin

and inhabit you

Bastard you

de-virginize

blacken orbital bone

& bleed out the truth

Cracking shells

aplenty

souffles rise

flat ones so depressing

Identity of sole

entity

they breathe empathy

from a canvas once empty

To breed deep they

drown

like Woolf or Natalie Wood

with coats heavy

Keep grounded,

surround with

challenges

antagonistic balances

Develop

decompose

evoke ethos

speak if spoken to(never silence them)

evolve

kill off

reincarnate

just to bring dystopia

flaw them

dissolve them

fill arc chock full

of problems they can't solve then

worship

don't deify

or idealize

we're all flawed

gay them

rearrange

structure

to be a maze then

make them the cancer

patients

make them villain

don't abstain

maybe insane them

make them the carriers

sly speaking words from the lips

of animals

caught in webs

not meant to escape

Attica

Never can

they die

immortalized

on the page and tongue

Complex

minor, heroic

foil or main

Narrator

doesn't matter

so long as they're

dynamic

fiction becomes real

when you build

Character.

(c) Paul LaTorre 2010