Chinese Democracy

from The Dao of Woodworking by Charles Dalton Telschow

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I am thankful everyday I still haven't figured out how to be normal. How to effortlessly handle life and its procedures, praise be to my faulty wiring.

I like to think poetry helps us be better people by comparing artistic perspectives otherwise unconsidered and unseen. That it helps rebuild the writer and the listener from broken, preserving the writers very flawed existence in the recital.

But if every poem helps rebuild, and rewire the mind to a better understanding of life relative to the subject at hand, what happens when the mind is reassembled, soul speak healing the Self all the way to complacency, tell me do the poems die?

Axl Rose couldn't write shit after he got out of therapy and that scares me.

Does my broken reflect the light, not the surface itself?

I'm ok with being ok, but not at the expense of artistry.

But I realize that the human body dies off and completely regenerates about every 7 years. Cells decomposing and coming together again, constantly crashing like waves in a mosh pit,

I am constantly collapsing and coming together.

The process will always need maintenance. Fuses blow, wires fray, hearts break.

There's a dangerous silence in peace.

You can't really describe it, and I don't think it needs to be.

But the serenity can empty your notebook if you let it.

Don't get lost in the euphoria, or the depression, bring something back to tell the rest of us, because I think we need that, for the coming together.

To hear tales of unrestricted love and freedom found in absolute darkness, and not have the credits roll right after

nah this one is real y'all.

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from The Dao of Woodworking, released July 6, 2017

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Charles Dalton Telschow Denver, Colorado

Charles Dalton Telschow is a 23 year old Denver poet and musician. He has competed in the city poetry circuit for several years, traveled to Congress to perform poetry, and was formerly in a metal band. He now finds refuge in writing, playing guitar, and singing. ... more