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JerryPat2
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0 posted 2014-11-05 07:42 AM




when you discover
you have no more words
to make a poem
at this point
your mind shuts down
allows darkness in
darkness that surges like
your own blood
but your bones still retain
some memory of your lost words
they are saved
in the hollow of the bones themselves
the bones spits and hawks
for the longest time
just long enough
to recover the lost words
presents them to
the frustrated poet
the poet is overjoyed
writes a glowing poem
about how his Muse
came through for him
Muse
if bones could only speak
but they can't
so bones did something else
developed rheumatoid arthritis
so bad
the poets hands
were mangled and disfigured horribly
he could think the words
but he had acquired the rheumatoid arthritis
so severely in his neck
he could not speak
the poet
sat for many, many years
waiting to die

©November 4, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

If they give you ruled paper write sideways.

© Copyright 2014 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
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