if you read this
and call me brilliant
for that nanosecond
I stopped writing paperclips
metaphorically
and became instead
disposable
lightly curved steel
useful only
in my holding together
the curled sum
of so many pages
you have forgotten
(this is a poem
only because
of the trickle down
language used
irrelevant
in practice
because all that
reaches the page
is piss gone cold
)
Susan Daniels Poetry 
Lightly curved steel can bite too Susan. Sink your teeth into blogflesh. Look into my eyes… I’ll give brilliant and up you a meaningful.
Damn, Lewin. I begin to think sometimes art happens despite our intentions otherwise.
Do we really care about paperclips? Or do we more properly care that we can twist them into a hidden weapon that can be used to open a jugular? Hey, there’s a medical device for you…
Art comes from passion. That is only answer I have.
Only thing I can say here is YES. An unfaked yes, authentic.
You just can’t help yourself writing well Susan. Try as you might.
🙂
Hee, hee…thank you!
😀
You been reading Lewin? haha. Great…as always. xoxo
Hee, hee. You know it…
Did you hear me laugh? Damn good thing I wasn’t sipping on something right there.
😉
Really liked the ending, luckily I didn’t let my coffee get cold reading it 😀 Sometimes I think about the bad poetry I used to read on blogs – which had the same effect as cutting onions and my eyes burned. And those posts got 50+ likes, then I found something well constructed and powerful slight complicated at time maybe – which got 12 likes of less. No wonder I have burned out a bit and mainly chose silliness over substance other than those rare occasions. 🙂 Oh now my coffees cold – darn 😦
Bruce–I hear you! Heat that coffee up again.
I do not claim to be a goood poet, but it’s fun to sit together and hack critically at each other, innit?
Bruce, that was so true. I find such awesome pieces occasionally and they get little appreciation.
Susan, nicey. I see we all joining Trent in the campaign against bad-traditional-art-being-called-creative-modern-art.
That is
so cool
innit.
(In case you didn’t notice, that was haiku!)
*eyes rolling *
Hee, hee. Love this comment!
Glad you do. Hehehe