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An Anthology of Right Now

Argie · 2007-08-09 00:12:03

So, I find that I generally try to spruce up and sentimentalise in my poetry. Not sure if that's good or bad but decided to take a swing at not doing it. All feedback welcome. Thanks. AN ANTHOLOGY OF RIGHT NOWRight now I have an ulcer inside my bottom lip From an evening of nervous agitation My black beret clashes with My…

09-08-2007 01:12AM

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Argie

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So, I find that I generally try to spruce up and sentimentalise in my poetry. Not sure if that's good or bad but decided to take a swing at not doing it. All feedback welcome.
Thanks.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF RIGHT NOW
Right now I have an ulcer inside my bottom lip
From an evening of nervous agitation
My black beret clashes with
My navy Soccer Mom sweater
But matches my socks
My nails are short
My toenails are long
My skin is sleepily pasty
Two black eyes
My mind is sluggish
With repressed emotion
I cannot feel
The pain of loss
I cannot understand
The frenzy of youth
Which picks me up and drops me again
With the fog of indifference
With the crippling disappointment
Of not being James Joyce
With the painful mediocrity
Of being adequate
But falling short of genius
With the unsettling idea
That I am somehow different
That the world I see
Is not like the one in your mind
The room in which I sit
Is disurbing in its chaos
And outside the room
Is disturbing in its oppressive placidity
For it is so grey.

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