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Dec 2014
stumble over the rhythm you create
as if it wasn't yours.
trip over the syllables in haste
as you attempt to overtake them
before they run out of control.
this is not poetry;
this is just plain crassness.
you're a verbal klutz,
and it hurts our sensibilities.
you can't hear what you're saying,
you are driving blind
in the blizzard of words
and you have the audacity to think
you'll get out of this unscathed;
somehow revered
because of your valiant effort
and mediocre product.
a bad combination,
and you're bound to be
called out on it, for sure.
luck won't cut it.
you have to know what you're doing
and you have to be good at it.
so if you have nothing to say
that you'll be saying rightβ€”
nothing that will squeeze flesh
through clothes or break skin and teeth
or kick and screamβ€”basically,
don't
even
try.
26 Oct 2014. A love letter from my imagined critics.
Lyra O
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Lyra O  PHL
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   GaryFairy
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