Jan 2015
I thought about the best way I could have acted
Speaking over the TV
Lying back STRAIGHT over the sofa
Just when Dad came home
Instead when he asked me how school was
I only mumbled "good' and headed into my room
to play The Clash CD I had gotten at the library
and sat alone on my bed until dinner
Even though I know he likes that band.
It's the pieces of the best thoughts I have
that fail to come together
Just when things start to happen
and the panic sets in.
Speaking over the TV
Lying back STRAIGHT over the sofa
Just when Dad came home
Instead when he asked me how school was
I only mumbled "good' and headed into my room
to play The Clash CD I had gotten at the library
and sat alone on my bed until dinner
Even though I know he likes that band.
It's the pieces of the best thoughts I have
that fail to come together
Just when things start to happen
and the panic sets in.
Written during a workshop with slam poet/MC Temperamental MissElaynious .
The group was discussing the issues of confidence and identity, I used some feint memories from my own childhood to examine the ideas of difficulties of communication and image- trigger symbolism by using child-like language and syntax. Something different for me.
The group was discussing the issues of confidence and identity, I used some feint memories from my own childhood to examine the ideas of difficulties of communication and image- trigger symbolism by using child-like language and syntax. Something different for me.
