Aug. 25th, 2012

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I don't write poetry anymore, but somehow the bug bit me today.



...





fumbling
hold

warmth
.
.
.
(ellipsis)

(is)

(is)

mouth/mouth
skin/skin
mouth
/
skin

heat
(warmth)
heat
heat

stop
breath

.

breath

.

breath

.

(ellipsis.)






I don't write poetry anymore largely because I think it's really difficult to write good poetry; unlike fiction I think poetry should always sound fresh and new and beautiful and like a song you've never heard before, and I just don't have that many songs in me, nor do I think of those songs as exceptionally pretty. But sometimes the bug just gets me.

If you're relatively new around here, my favorite poets of all poets include Dorothy Parker, Pablo Neruda, and, my all time favorite, e.e. cummings. Oh dear God, e.e. cummings.

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