WORDS
WORDS FLAIL FAIL
propelling words down my arm into
hand & fingers tricking brain no i
will not write today pick up pen mid
swig transcribe copy invent?
doesn’t pay the rent last bookevent sold 24copies
6372+ words dollars have not yet flowed in this
direction from the BIG BOXY BOOK STORE
that’s what you get for making your pact
mercenary poet too addicted to filthy lucre
to stay with the indies on an orange crate? while
the literati congregate at awards ceremonies
& 2 poets named anne vie for the $75,000 prize
i draw your attention to the slowness of writing
to those excruciating coagulations of words
especially when there are no words to describe
your subject matter only growls
today in my city the lower 1/2 of an infant was
found in a park the morning paper announced:
it is not a homicide at this point would that i
were a painter or sculptor & my job would be done
with an economy of strokes + the blow of a chisel
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Summer 2014
songanddancegirl 