This is Just to Cope
after “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the chocolates
that were in
the freezer
and which
I was certainly
avoiding
out of body shame
Forgive yourself—
they were comforting,
so decadent
and so crisp
A.R. Williams is a poet from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley (USA), and has been published in iamb, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Neologism Poetry, tiny wren lit, among many others. He is the author Funeral in the Wild (Kelsay Books, 2024) and Time in Shenandoah (Bottlecap Press, 2024). Social media: @arw_poetry