|
How To Not Write A Poem |
See how many chocolates you can eat
Without biting into a single one
11 miniatures
Gag on a sugar high
See how white the faded denim fringe of your cut-off shorts
Looks against your tanned thigh
Turn your arms this way and that,
Compare them against the aforementioned thigh
See which is darker
(it’s the thigh, it’s always the thigh)
See if you can make water bead up on your forearm
Count the vitamins left in your bottle sitting on your desk
Play with toe ring
Tap a tune on your keyboard
See how it comes out looking like 3489ut9 foesdvx790eiritr9u043903
Deep condition your hair
Polish your nails
Take up crocheting
Happily pick up ringing phone only to find
Irate editor at other end
Looking to pick fight
Yes, you understand the meaning of deadline
No, you don’t need to look it up
Yes, you will quit procrastinating
Immediately become brilliant
Write something witty and dazzling
Sparkle on paper
All the while vowing not to go near the candy section
Of the department store again.
(previously published in Megaera)
copyright 2012
Aurora
Antonovic |
