Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Ink - by Rand (with apologies to Mark Strand)

If my tongue and teeth
are stained dark blue

is it only because I
have been up all night

eating poetry again

2 comments:

  1. Going to start talking of Michael's passing,
    when Mom said,"Son, it is going to be all right."
    Stop worrying if my words are trespassing on
    those I write about in the still of the night.

    I am putting it all out there.
    I am putting it all out there.
    I am going to listen to you, friend.
    I am putting it all out there.

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  2. These words that spill out
    Ebony marring what once
    Was white
    Is my heart pouring out.
    Sometimes I feel that if I were
    To take the darker way out
    That instead of blood
    I would bleed ink.

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