Thursday, March 12, 2009

Pretending

When I shit myself
I really don't want
people standing around
pretending
they
gave
a
shit
in
the
first
place

2 comments:

Autumn Storm said...

Gotta love language. :-) And the way you use it. Such an obvious thing to say, I know, but nothing else would have worked as well. Forget that, nothing else would have made this what it is, a punch of a poem, a right-hook, hard and fast with maximum impact. Unfortunate fact in a forcible nutshell. Sharp and slick.

Trée said...

This really is, for me, an interesting poem. Written with two competing events in my mind, one layering on top of the other. Written, like all my work, in the window it was given. I'm thankful I happened to be before a keyboard. As always, thanks for the very warm and kind words. :-)