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By Misti Date: 2002 Jan 03 Comment on this Work [[2002.01.03.10.29.29108]] |
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am I alive and bright and shining and ready for another day of resentful rote no I am dead back in my dreams of Corey Haim's touching rise to fame two new lovers on a beach exploding white hope giving mouth-to-mouth to a seagull watching them from a distance feeling like a crone saying to myself I've been through all the cycles, I think it's good that they're happy let them have it my eyes are red and my nose is running last night you told me about the "Twilight Zone" episode in which a starlet stuck somewhere between life and death took everyone away from the picnic to avoid being killed by her crashing plane I was suddenly scared you soothed me with a twisted fairy tale the wolf lost Little Red Riding Hood he was bitter because of it so he lied to the Gingerbread Boy told him he had eaten his Gingerbread Girl but they all became friends in the end all is well in the Dark Forest love lives and breathes and grows like kudzu am I ready for another day of this a day without reading poems that make me alive like I already almost am a day without writing poems that could happen to almost anyone if they were poor and hungry and hopeful enough am I ready for another day of rote I don't feel fake I cannot will into reality no but it is time to go make the donuts |