Sep 6, 2025
a poem from a few weeks ago
I want to write a poem, I told them
to express what's going on inside me
maybe to find something out.
A poem? He asked me,
but he didn't say it like that -
she said it like -
A Poe em? Really.
Like I didn't already know it wasn't
going to amount to anything.
Didn't already know
I didn't know
how to put it down.
I thought I'd say something about how I felt
but how I felt is empty/
hollow/
stasis/
waiting.
Is that something to write about?
What do you think?
It sounds like you need to yell
he said, not
write a poem.
But I felt empty
like a bell is empty:
waiting to be rung.
Maybe I need
someone to yell
into me.
