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Spent Moment
Spent Moment
"I quit," I mutter to a friend I should be sitting with
at the bottom of a staircase, lighting up a cigarette that
could be hanging out of my mouth,
slumped shoulders,
angel of choking and smoldering ashes.
"I quit poetry," I say, stoking my
dreamed-up, cheapened-down peace pipe.
"I'll swish and spit once more into poetry's
fish bowl, then quit
again."
(Actually never quite quit it, though I've had those down times, probably like everyone else.)
"I quit," I mutter to a friend I should be sitting with
at the bottom of a staircase, lighting up a cigarette that
could be hanging out of my mouth,
slumped shoulders,
angel of choking and smoldering ashes.
"I quit poetry," I say, stoking my
dreamed-up, cheapened-down peace pipe.
"I'll swish and spit once more into poetry's
fish bowl, then quit
again."
(Actually never quite quit it, though I've had those down times, probably like everyone else.)
Published 18th Feb 2010
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Anonymous
18th Feb 2010 11:39am
we all have hibernations i guess, nicely put spent moment!I like that bit-"angel of and smouldering ashes".
Anonymous
26th Jun 2014 5:37pm
I have lived that same moment with art, and the art world looking at myself as a whore... there is a point... you think you are no longer an artist... just someones bitch.... being lead by people with no vision, or taste for that matter. or a pixel pusher fixing abortionistic garbage that someone else considers camera ready... by no means do I see myself superior in any manner... the most humble you will meet... but wtf!!! REALLY !!!! just because anyone can bootleg a copy of adobe, they are a professional? I guess I've found my comfort in my career and let my personal life... be my creative growth... Don't get me wrong I love my job... a bad day for me I break a pencil.... or crash a harddrive.... :)
