Thursday, June 3, 2010

But I'm not a poet - formatted.

I tried to post this poem about a week ago, but I wasn't able to get the formating to work.  Here it is again, formatted.  
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But I’m not a poet. 

Bike horizontally m  o  r  p  h  s into sidewalk. 
11:33,
     urs
Th      day

evening,

the final 41
       saunters away. 

Crouch.                                     
Hide. 
Cover light. 
Bike and being,
consciously lifeless,
pressed against the gutter. 
P  r  e  s  e  n  t     i  n     l  i  g  h  t. 
Blink. 
I  m  p  r  e  s  s  e  d     o  n     d  a  r  k  n  e  s  s,
like an illuminated
tattoo
lining my eyelids. 
Blink. 

Rose, rose, arose. 

                                                     Blink. 

1,429 miles,                      and                 205,                                      
                  68.5 months,                                573,
                                                                           481
                                                                               heartbeats                                                           
separate.

Blink. 
You, every blink a new setting,
   a   n             o           n. 
           e      m    t     o
              w            i



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    Blink. 
        Rose. 
Blink. 
Lines and verse
tattered and stained. 
You.  Me.  She.                                                                          Blink.

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Control,
dominance,
 malice,
boredom,

action by inaction
      – blink, blink, blink.
                                          You.  Me.  She.

Romance novels
bound in strands
of putrid disgust.

                    A poem of love. 
A love of possessive indifference. 

Blink, blink,





but I am not a poet.

-becca

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