exorcises

these poems
are ghosts

head-hauntings
i have to stop
& exorcise
just to function

unpossessed,
like a normal
person & not
a writer

not some
brainpriest
splashing
holy water along
inner walls

repeatedly, all
hours of the day
just to keep
the spirits
of words from
physically
harming me

from breaking
all my inside
furniture,
from scaring
too many
visitors away.