July 15, 2004

some pieces of poems

Give me some years and tools
To figure things out on my own
And when I learn to spit in my own face,
Then I’ll get back to you in writing

These days
I’m terribly afraid
That in one stirring flash
Everyone will know what I’m talking about

With that,
All at once,
Everyone I’ve ever written about
Will yell at me at the same time

This is unrelated,
But I was thinking about it;
I want to hurt you hard
Hard enough to make you cry

I have no malice,
Only love gone tired, gone

And I have said a lot of things
From the anchor of a broken heart
To hurt you just enough to keep you
Not let you sail away

I’m tired of writing poems about the present moment
I want to have concepts, I want to have ideas!
But instead I have lots of words
And no one to really say them

And what feels like the beginning stages of carpal tunnel

Maybe I'd be a real writer
If I had a real desk
Instead of typing at funny angles all the time.

Posted by samantha at July 15, 2004 06:29 AM