Broke Brain Fool
Broke brain fool writing down words
he don't know what they mean
he picks them up by the dozen
scatters them on a page
like he thinks he knows what he's doing
he thinks he's going to touch somebody
reach into a place they can't get to
themselves because they're too busy
at whatever busy-ness they're doing
so he gets busy writing down words
he don't know what they mean
to anybody else
Copyright 2010 Carl Thames
Good poem. I like the informal voice. I agree with you about poetry -- it is about now. The old "epic poems" are for another age, when communication was mainly oral. And the idea that the poet writes down the words without any awareness of what they might mean to someone else is so true. In all art, really, much of what we get out of it depends on what we bring to it.
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