By kevin urenda
Date: 20 October 1999

Would you write me?

would you write If you could write me
into a poem
what form would I take?

Would I become
a mind numbing ditty
the kind of boy band
sing along disposable words
that will be forgotten tomorrow?

Would I be
an unintelligible scribble
not even you could read
an unknown and unknowable
scrawl on the scrap paper
of your life?

Or

Would I be loving
words woven on a loom
of inspiration
heirloom quality everlasting
expressions of abiding passion?

I
feel like a psychology textbook
collecting dust on a shelf
a set of construction drawings
rolled up and leaning in the corner
or the funny papers
in the recycle box in the garage

nothing special...

10/14/99


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