Maybe I’m in Utah
Under martial law
Digging under nightfall
In a low crawl
Hopelessly trapped
Where new earth mapped
Sealed
To keep out the curious
But I am delirious
Don’t keep crawling
At the place you’re getting stuck (says John Jones)
Remember Jones?
Went digging for gemstones
Got stuck; earth clinging to his bones
God bless John Jones
John,
I know the depths you crawled
The barriers
I know how much you bawled
Earth superior
John,
I know you clawed
None merrier
I know once you called
And broke hopes area
Died upside down
Shit rolling along his back
Lost hope
In the black
28 hours later
Dies of heart attack
The constant variable
I find unbearable
My soul unwearable
I just feel terrible
© Delia Ross. 2022 / @poeeternal
Victim blame all you want. The map was changed.
“I’m not where I thought I was”
“I thought I was someplace else on the map”
“I thought it was going to open up”
“Why did you put me here”
BRO, YOU WERE GASLIT AND MURDERED
BRO, THEY ARE DOING THE SAME TO ME ABOVE GROUND
THEY WANT TO COMMIT ME BECAUSE I KNOW THEY ARE MURDERING ME
IT’S A HITLER DEATHCAMP INSIDE THE MEDICAL SYSTEM
I FOUND THE ENEMY EVERYWHERE
BRO, POETRY ALL WEEK FOR YOU
I can’t sleep at night for what they’ve done to us
To what they’re doing
I fantasize about digging you out
“I want out”
“I hate this cave”
Bro, I’m so angry at the folks at the VA
I’m fantasizing about *insert positive context*
Recovery huh
You’re 400 feet from the entrance 100 feet below
Tattoo your name on my heart already
I’m coming to get you bro… come hell or high water
Don’t want the water, already contemplate some shit like that happening digging
“What the hell is that sound”
Desert floods. Welp.
Do I need to worry about gas being built up down there?
I have no problem dragging you out one bone at a time
He literally doesn’t want to be down there
His last will and testament verbally was he wanted to be broken in half to be pulled out
“Break me in half”
They dropped him on his head instead 👍👍
Tied the main pulley support on some clay
AND
Jerked harder when everything was going just fine
“It’s working, it’s working, pull harder”
WHY CHANGE IT UP IF IT WAS WORKING
GREAT RESCUE Y’ALL
Terrible management
Two kids got stuck there in that same section 6 months prior and it took like a 10 hour rescue and instead of marking that territory off they made a new map with MISSING DANGEROUS FEATURES
“I’m not where I thought I was…” John Jones
Well let’s go ahead and victim blame OK
See it in every article
NARCISSISM IS A PLAGUE
And once our enemy gets the people with the paychecks to kill off us then they’re going to come kill them off
Sometimes I want to let the darkness take over
John Jones died on Thanksgiving so
THAT IS WHY
Also, might’ve kinda met while I’ve been dying
“I talk to dead people” tearfully
Anyhoo there may be more poetry about the shit happening
His story is the icing on the cake in this hell
Nobody should be jealous of a dead boy (new band name)
PoeEternal 