surfacetoday

I’ve got divorced coffee cups

glued to my desk.

In silent reverie they sing.

Mouthes open at the wet white lid,

the dark-tongued spit stretches their words out,

and their thoughts stain the sheets

with a loving erase:

a brown heart,

in black ink.

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Justin Millett

phenominal passage.
also i love bright eyes so yeah.

Ilasir Maroa

lol, funny and well-written, you must be taken.

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surfacetoday

God,
I thought this was sad.

But thankyou? Ilasor.

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Eiji Tunsinagi

Strange and spare and well thought out, I can tell. I didn't catch "sad" aside from divorced coffee cups.

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surfacetoday

Any suggestions eiji?

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Tyde

I thought this was pretty powerful!

For some reason, I liked the way the lines began to shorten towards the end.

I guess the whole thing just read smoothly.

Eiji Tunsinagi

Lean more tranquil than strange (the tongue and mouthes stuff) and you will probably find "sad" at some point. Like I expected you to play on the coffee cup image more (in a down-to-earth way) and that might have made for some sad stuff.

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"how will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?"

surfacetoday

That's not really the point -- it wasn't intended to be sad, per say.
It was just the feeling I got from it.
I don't want to get rid of the weirdness,
so I guess it'll come off however it does.

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Eiji Tunsinagi

I'll write the sad version then. That's usually what I do anyhow. "Melancholy".

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horace.person

i'm very ambivalent about this poem. it's surreal and i like it but, mayhaps, it just doesn't "jive" well. i have no other way of putting it.

however, i do enjoy reading it. it's almost bittersweet.

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surfacetoday

i don't really understand what you mean at all.
You enjoy reading it... but dislike it?
Maybe you could tell me what "jive" means?

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surfacetoday

go for it, man. post it up here

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