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Street Talkers (Amnesiac) (Free verse) by Fear of Garbage
I am standing in my home.
At night I forget how to be aluminum and now I am carbon, out on a
street, walking,
as if I had nothing to do.
Sometimes I forget what I am.
Sometimes I forget what I am doing. The street is what I must be; you
cannot separate yourself from
where you are.
That tree over there, he is just a sort
of angry man with many fingers, many toes.
He keeps babies hugged inside his hollowed bowels. And that corn stalk
over there. That is just
a weeping woman, her extremities are drooping and yellow. I have looked
at her so long I think she must be a part of me. I walk through, scaring
the crows.
I talk to the street about my day. She is busy attending her Street
Spirits. Half-people. Sometimes I don?t remember but I think that I am
one of them.
Other times I wonder what I?m doing here.
I walk through scaring crows. Sometimes I forget how to be A metal.
strange. The Street Spirits are carbon, the street, the crows,
everything at night, that I would never remember what it feels like to
be easily twisted, aluminum.
If, in the morning I go back to my home
the street will not be there, in my life. Sometimes I forget who I am.
Sometimes I forget this is my life; I am never, never coming home.
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Weighted score: 6.15
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Posted: February 15, 2003 10:13 PM PST; Last modified: February 15, 2003 10:13 PM PST
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