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nick cover 1.jpg — Melissa Etheridge’s Seminal 1993 Album Made of Two Overlapping Triangles Instead of One

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Nick Mehalick
Nick Mehalick is a son of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University and currently lives and teaches in Philadelphia. His poetry can be found in "The Cerurove," and "Philosophical Idiot," among others, and his fiction in "Untethered Magazine." He is the host of the podcast Book.Record.Beer. and drummer for various Philadelphia-based bands.
Twitter: @NMehalick
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from Melissa Etheridge’s Seminal 1993 Album Made of Two Overlapping Triangles Instead of One

Compromise

How fitful is our sleep
All of us
In this process of leaving

The slow transgression
Of so much sand
That is each grain another

This death of conscience
Keeps us awake by increased degree

But what of the landlocked narwhal
And those impervious to heat

Fahrenheit wears the mask
Moments expired
And there is no jail like this one

Wherein we go free
When we surrender
Enough times as it takes

To breathe