Scribbling Nonsense

 
Addicted to adverbs
Conjunctions and hyperbole
Can you believe I’ve just
Created this monstrosity

An inspired creative frenzy
Or just a crazed lunacy
Laughing maniacally
Authenticity compels me

Obsessing over misspellings
My pen is running dry in this
Grammatical maelstrom
And I’m losing the fight

Slashing run-on sentences
Wielding the editor’s knife
I fix a paraphrasing and the verse
Dissolves right before my eyes

Verbs blur into maladies
Prepositions interject and then
I’m chasing lazy subjects
Right fkn off the page’s edge

Crumbling synonyms are
Antagonizing the author
Pushing me to try harder to
Captivate a yawning audience

But I’m losing my breath
Keeping up with myself
As my mind purges so many
Paragraphs without purpose

Lacking the anecdotes now
I’m just scribbling nonsense
While delirium compounds
Every fkn last little word

Oh,
It’s just
The writer’s life for me

Or,
Maybe
I could use a little sleep