Sunday, January 27, 2019

To write a poem 19th August 2018

You can’t possibly write a poem
Till you have been fucked and a half by life,
By your day job, by your bills, by your health, by your addiction...
Till u haven’t seen some lousy motherfucker make it to the top by simply phaffing hours on end!

And then 
You cannot just sit down to write a poem.
You need to participate in a riot
And have tear gas thrown at you 
While you light a Molotov’s cocktail!

And that’s when you realise that 
A poem just cannot be allowed in.
It needs to break down the door and barge in 
revolver in hand firing shots at you, your photos on the wall and even your shadow!

It’s only then you agree that
A poem actually cannot be written.
It can only be hammered down and nailed to the cross 
At 2 O’Clock in the morning

While your loved ones sleep without a care in the world ! 

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