The Groove
If you have to try,
do not bother.
The true writer does not wonder
What would Walt Whitman think
of this line
or this line
Am I not being abstract enough
Do I use well
my literary devices
when he writes delicately
of countryside sunsets
that look like oranges dipped in lemon juice
and life and death
and heaven and hell
encompassed
or when he writes sonnets
with roses
to his begotten love
checking structure, syllables,
iambic pentameter
perfect rhyme scheme
because without all that,
it is no good.
The writer is a man
and a mouse
and a lion
when the occasion calls for it.
He does not live to write
He writes to live
English teachers
will have you thinking differenty
as well as
many best selling authors.
If you got the groove,
you got the groove,
and all you need to do
is to dance, dance, dance.
For, I am that blue-moon madman
with razor eyes
and I dance
and I dance
until the day's life is out of me.
I feel good, like a master,
like a wizard,
like I've done something worthwhile.
After,
I am left with a feeling
of emptiness
like a dead goldfish
as if I had done nothing at all.
Copyright © Alex Bruinekool | Year Posted 2010
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