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Ah, I must say, I've been slacking on keeping up with so many poems. I'd like to blame it on the barrage of death, illness and the end of the term. Also, my newly rabid ukulele addiction. Any down time seems to be devoted to strumming and singing and pretending I know what I'm doing. Still, I'm not giving up on the poems. I think this bout of "Writer's Block" has come at a lame time, but I continue to push on.
Bukowski said: "Writing about writer's block is better than not writing at all."
Not sure if I agree... but I thought in honor of the month, I'd share a poem I've written during this mission. This was Day 12: A Broken Poem.
THE BILLIONTH BREAK-UP POEM
Clicking copy/paste
back-brain replaying how
she left me, left
the zipper down on us too much
this deep-space kind of
silence. Maybe
we didn’t need the
finale, or
sitcom-grief of all those
years
not-saying counts, maybe,
for something. The same
curtains
hang neon in windows
where we
don’t sleep now. I don’t
know
why I drive by, but some
nights
it’s easier than trying
to get
around it.
In the meantime, my assignment to all y'all poets and writers: write a poem today. Even if you aren't doing the challenge. My prompt to you, if you care to play...
Write a sonnet, or simply a 14-line poem, with the theme of "something you love too much." We all have one of those things—whether it's a person or a video game or a imported red wine. Go!
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