Stupid!

by Phil Laws   May 8, 2016


My mind is blank
Why can't I write
Would I rather be out
Growing cold in the night
Thinking of choices
No that's not it
Because I want to write
No, I don't give a shit
Wait, maybe I do
What will I say
If this paper is blank
in a 48th of a day
Oh, pencil please write
Mind, control my hands movement
Then figure out why
All my wit seems absent
Think!
Hit your head again, think!
Look around the room
They're holding utensils
What should I assume
Are they racking their brains
Or instead, sealing my doom
I'll look like a fool
Wait, my paper is full
What the hell's going on?
Why's my pencil so dull
Who used my damn pencil?!?!

P.A.L.

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  • 8 years ago

    by Em

    Haha :) this made me laugh after an hectic day. I tell you what, it's quite fun when you can't think of anything to write then bam you look down and your inks run dry and your papers full.

    Great write, Em

  • 8 years ago

    by Phil Laws

    Wrote this in a poetry group in the very early 90's. One week we had little new to share so we all spent half an hour writing. This was mine.

    I wrote "Friends & Hungry Artists" about that poetry group.