Whichever Works

by George K. Karos II

Flowing.

Interrupted.

Image credit: Diogo Nunes on Unsplash

Never struggling for answers.

Expanding efforts to understand

why I am confused about how sometimes

I cannot understand anything’s understanding.

Reeling.

Exhausted.

Exasperated from chaos’s surveillance

directing its oblivious recipients

into its spellbound patterns          

marketed with mechanisms

to manipulate inclusion.

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George K. Karos II

George K. Karos II is a musician and visual artist. He attended public schools in West Virginia until the completion of seventh grade, and then attended and graduated from Saint James School, located in Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Arts from West Virginia University, and his Master of Arts from American University. For over three decades, he has performed his music projects in various arts venues, and his poems have appeared in national and international literary publications. These poems were written over the last two years while living in Florida, Oregon, and Maryland. He currently lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where he continues to write and perform poetry and music. George has had six books published.