Destitute

Summary

The poem "Destitute" reflects on the futility of coping mechanisms in the face of life's relentless challenges and the search for meaning amidst a sense of disconnection from personal convictions.

Abstract

The poem "Destitute" by J.D. Harms, accompanied by an abstract painting photograph, delves into the struggle against the unending stream of life's events, likening them to a vaccination that fails to grant immunity. It suggests that despite our best efforts to manage symptoms of distress, we are often left with a lingering unease. The poem critiques the societal tendency to co-opt salvation and the superficiality of "stellar coping mechanisms," which ultimately fall short. It touches on a pervasive sense of disconnection from one's own beliefs and the uncertainty of whether these beliefs still hold relevance or have been rendered obsolete. The poem conveys a sense of urgency and disorientation, as the

A Poem

I manage to kill all the symptoms except the ones I left.

This vaccination of events hasn’t made any of us immune Stellar coping mechanisms write shit out of the woodwork and then go around passing notes that people wipe their noses with Figuring on the speech on the endemic attitude towards co-opting salvation there is small tic ticking about the nervous and those who shouldn’t be I don’t even know what my gods think anymore if they’ve been unplugged But instead of making acoustic jokes the body of a bell swings hard at the head and you’re supposed to think there’s something in your hands