tippity tippity tap
tap tap tippity tap
tippity tap tap tap
And
stop.
This is not it.
This is not art,
this is no way for me to start.
This glowing screen
this cold machine
can never catalyze my dreams into
communication
conversation
or fire my
imagination (nor can
The mincing of a pen
across neat lines). Writing only hurts my hand.
And so,
I stand.
Re-align the ol’ synapses
Click my fingers and my HOUSE collapses!
And THERE,
Planet Earth, with a grin, says,
“I dare you! Throw form to the winds!” And I,
I want to blast my words from the sky
with a big, black blunderbuss,
scatter the survivors to the four corners of heaven!
I want to ****** my fingers, scraping in the grit,
Frantically digging in the glaur and the grime for runaway rhyme
I want to haul my metaphors in, thrashing, from the sea
Hold them, know them, set them free!
I want my similes to flatten me
Like rhinos on the rampage
Tell me your stories, in everything you do
Make a bonfire of biros, a pixel pyre
And dance your poems as the flames leap higher!
I want to write with my FEET across a Scotland-shaped sheet!
I do not want to be neat.
To tether in letters,
To file for forgetters.
Words on a page are birds in a cage,
Poetry unspoken
Life, unwoken.
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