11.10.2009

On the Subject of Writing on Complex Topics

Can I write
A successful poem
about Rape?
Murder?
About a fantastic blow job
About a feeling of hopeless, human desperation
Without

Mincing words
Cutco at the ready
It's so hard to capture
brutality
animalistic
urges both suppressed
and expressed
and self evaluation

Can I write a successful poem
about anything
without opening myself to judgement?
Probably not
but listen to my tale anyway:

Of my own suicide
of a woman used like a tissue
a sock
and of what he wishes that sock was
the mouth of his lover
and how pointless it is to desperately search for meaning
in orgasm

A pause (Alright)
A pplause (polite)
A stern look and silence

Judge if you will
but I'm writing anyway

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