Permission

To allow for bitterness

Bitter Permit by Lane Timothy Speidel

I cannot always be sweet.

I must have a permit for bitterness.

However infrequent I must behave ingraciously*

I spill my soup and spit out my cake.

I let fly wretched names and invent in brief syncopation decades long rivalries.

I pathologize flaws and squeeze texts unfairly.

I am high from inhaling deeply noxious theories.