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Shut Up Laughs At Me

I take my black ink and I write in large furious letters I AM ENRAGED But I am not. I AM FURIOUS! Is the next thing my independent pen throws down, Not on lines, but in an enormously disturbed way, smothering the page. What is going on here? Is my muse having a medical crisis? Pointedly calm I write “I am wild,” in a line, on a line, in a non-savage-like way. Shotgun poetry, Trixie writes next. These two words Are smacking the page in a willy-nilly, topsy-mopsy way. Other words land on the table. I see SHUT UP and she laughs at me. Not Trixie, the word “shut up”. An entire run-on sentence lands on the floor in front of my Table. I AM NOT HAVING A CRISIS appears in big sharp, mean, ugly letters. As if that is not apparent.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 1/26/2019 9:58:00 PM
Steven King would be proud of you for this one... Let's label it Horror-Lite! Read it twice already, and may come back for more after midnight. Bwa-ha-ha! :) gw
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/26/2019 10:14:00 PM
Hilarious! I read it twice before I realized when I copied it I had left off the first stanza. I think I finally got it all down.

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