Why I Am Not A Painter

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            a pile of mostly raw and probably bad poetry

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            in the hopes of creating something better

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            I am aware that that can be unsettling
            but that's the risk you run being friends with a writer. Also,
            maybe you're just being paranoid. Also,
            there is never a clear picture of reality

same crap time, same crap channel

this is the thing i want some of
i don't know what's this thing.

maybe doughnuts i always want doughnuts no
i do want doughnuts and i know it
therefore doughnuts cannot be this
because this
is something i don't know what's this

thing. this is the moon but probably not the moon
but a dim yellow light bulb
placed beside a child's star-making machine.

that is a simile. i can make similes
for what this is when i don't know.

i think that's what this is.

the star machine is better
than the stars - i can see
every star of every season
if i stop using seasonal filters

and i can wish on seven-hundred
they will still count.

but this is something different.
my mother always calls me that.

posted by Emilie  # 10:04 PM

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