Thursday, April 18, 2013

so, want

bursting,
unasked heart

sit staring,
searching women
again and again

you’re somebody else
you patiently roar,
something else

girlfriend,
boyfriend,
anybody,
you’re ready

to sleep over,
do it like a rocket

suicide sun inside,
burning itself

doing it
in you

no way,
never



[This is an erasure poem, the source text was Charles Bukowski's "So You Want To Be A Writer?" As is typical of an erasure poem, I did not re-arrange the sequential order of any words, only omitted the intervening words to create new phrases. Thanks SaraEve for the prompt!]

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