Post-Resignation

I am living 

with a boulder’s resistance 

to weathering 

& necessary indifference. 

I even think 

my body can pass

through humanity’s worst tortures 

and I’d remain living 

until a few hours pass into day 

and black mockingbirds perch upon 

my remembered body. 

If I have learned 

anything from my life, 

who knows then 

how much pain 

I will sustain.