I want to write poetry again
but all the words seem overused and stale
I feel pretentious even now
because who wants to hear these thoughts
that rattle like change in an old gelato jar
it's just noise.
The irony of writing poems about not writing poems
is not lost on me.
Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 10:39 PM UTC
I want to write poetry again
but all the words seem overused and stale
I feel pretentious even now
because who wants to hear these thoughts
that rattle like change in an old gelato jar
it's just noise.
The irony of writing poems about not writing poems
is not lost on me.
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