Words

and do a Roy Orbison and Ferlin Huskey TK U MLJ LV NV

This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 36,000 poems.

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I don’t even know if you know how good you are or whether you do it so well kind of unknowingly – spontaneously –intuitively, how do I know?

You don’t trust the words. Can anyone blame you? After being seduced then betrayed by men who all used words! Unfortunately you can only express you mistrust in words by…using words. What’s a smart poet to do? She does it under protest! BRILLIANT!!!

(Sorry for my hyper ventilating). How are you doing that? Elementary, dear Watson… Let’s start by hanging this pretentious untrustworthy words side way up! That will teach them. (I can easily imagine some aggression going into this stress position, imagining MR WRONG being held for a while in that posture!). Now let’s scribble the message on, true, still in words –but this time with colors which express all the range of emotions, AND in hand writing, which can tell so very well how we feel (no need to be a professional to analyze the prevailing mood). Strong thick letters you can almost feel the angry pressure of the hand engraving each letter into those damn WORDS. It almost feel like the punishing torture of a tattoo artist engraving into her betraying lover a big T(for traitor) only here it consists of many angry words. Yes dear poet, do your angry grieving beautiful work of love with no beloved. Deep inside you know (or will know soon that those are the beautiful colors that will attract your new lovers; those are the words which will elicit their next words as they try to console you back to love, only this time more observing more carefully –or not, but still vulnerable, and always dependent on these words which may think in their vanity that you were worshiping them all along not punishing them. Bring on more soon, yes? .

Simple yet effective visual poetry!

And then there was that song so many years ago ~ D-I-V-O-R-C-E.