Confirmation Bias
or We All Go To Heaven
The council of my inner voice
votes and the tally shows
I’m still mostly a good guy.
I rarely renege on promises,
shoplift from the liquor store
or cheat on my girlfriends.
But they’ve spent years crafting
this self-image and tend to ignore
marks left in the jerk column.
(Written for this week’s Living Poetry Prompt and Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt.)
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
Great first stanza. I like the ‘rarely’rarely steal’ lines too.
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Thanks! I used a lot of adverbs in this one.
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Very clever. By the end I forgot the council was self-made for a second because of the objective third person throwing a curve there.
I liked it!
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Thanks, Mary!
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Aye…well……’nuff said
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Thanks, Bernie!
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