Two Sides of a Tree

West: LET GO

East: How about 𝘺𝘰𝘶 let go you mothe-

West: Oh for the love of grass, ZILCH. You witch-branched ugly verdant sucking demon BIRCH

East: What did you say? I'm a fleemon hitch? Have you lost your roots?

West: it's no use.

East: WHAT?

West: I SAID, IT-

East: S-eak slo-er I CAN'T HEA-

West: THERE'S TOO MUCH WIND

East: My back hurts. I'm a hunchback.

West: Ew-ew stop it stop it 6 feet
SIX FEET I'LL EMANCIPATE I'LL FILE FOR A NO-CONTACT A STRAIGHT-BACKED NON-CRACKED-

Wind: wooosh

...

Wind: wooosh!


i: i met a pinyon pine on the edge of a cliff
in the summit of Eagle Peak

there it stood
shivering on the East
and shimmering by the West

This was an odd tree. the bark grew into two—

One side growing towards the East
one side growing towards the East

Huh?

Ah, yes, I guess I should tell you that the wind seemed to come from the West
so it first hit the East

-ern side of the tree i said hello!

she spoke to me mellow
told me her branches become ugly non-lea

i fell on my knees as i saw the tree eroded towards the East

Crawling there,
i heard singing
the western side was lamenting

you're beautiful
your leaves are like wine, branch like brine said i

why do you weep i said only to be met with a dead end

it would not speak to me or look
to me

only to itself, and it went on, East grows into me
East won't understand me its spiky branches they hurt me
East is harsh to me East cannot protect me

i took a step back to view the tree in its full proximity

shaped like a line bent Eastwards right before the end,
the leftern side was green and beautiful
the right side dry and malformed in towards its sister

but don't you see?
the East was the West, an impossible possibility

protecting its natural born kin forever and ever
from the wind because the impact always hit
him

two to become one, one side stripped of humanity,
the other of vanity