This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Snowden On Date: 2001-01-23 12:25:03 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Lostness

"So many things I could have done," the song said.  I wouldn't take the test.  Rooms that lead to each other in an endless circle, family blindfolded (why is there always an inevitable excuse to pull me back inside--back into doubt, disapproval creating distance? that house should be shot).  So many plans put out with the garbage, bad milk, pot pies, needy poems too veiled (similar), too much like life, my face the bright alarm becoming blank without the thought of you, the same solutions running in to save me for one more brief moment.  I die at their expense.  Another search.  Do you think it is that easy, beginning each sentence without someone there to believe it?  If you need the money, I can give it to you (what's another scar?)--dealing in trade, stuffing the envelope, drinking until I can learn to talk again. The house hovers in the storm, waiting to fall upon another dysfunctional heart (it is a cycle, you know? houses.).  The debris is amazing.  So many remains of childhood: forty-fives, Lincoln Logs, friendly with the girls.  I want to let you know how the air got so crowded, the hope so determined.  Help me blow away the smoke.  I need to show off and scream for a moment, loosen the grip of whatever it is that holds me down.  I want a pill.  A breath. One goddamn dream to call my own.  You can wake me up tomorrow.

Copyright © January 2001 James C. Snowden

Additional Notes:
The experimental puntuation is intentional. The mentioned song is Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now.


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