Monday, February 1, 2016

Poetry 35 - Analogical Ladder

Writing sucks - no
It is cruel.

“It’s getting something off your chest,”
except it stays.
It is
the bitter cranberry juice stain on a white dress.

Nothing removes, rather
writing wiggles the dagger inside.

Grooving,
it doubles as a ladder.

Blood spurts, then climbs
the analogical ladder,
to leap from the roof
to the paper.

Wounds remain,
after forceful claws to communicate.

A hostage situation -
waterboard me ‘til I speak.
I’ll cough it all up,
and I’ll feel it shoot.

“Poetic,” projectile vomit.
More stains.

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