…sometimes inspiration comes and finds you!
I love writing poetry, but it’s tough doing so sometimes. And this may sound like an excuse, but I really need to be inspired to write (which is why my poems are spread so far in between). When I try to force myself to write something, it never comes out right, but I have to work on that. Anywho, recently I got a Lyft and per usual, I placed my earphones in and sat back to enjoy the ride home. I noticed my driver was talking to me, so I paused my music and he handed me a book. He explained to me what to do with the book and instantly I thought, “wow, this is dope and very interesting!”
I could just be late and not hip, but the book was called the “One Page Blackout Poems”. You pick a page of the book, read the text and blackout and keep certain words to create a poem. So here is what I came up with (the original is below):
I tiptoed
humming
clothes all over the floor in the soggy night
as if the night air had gone moldy
me
drained of color
blood sucked out by the night
so see-through
marked with dark bruises
Sincerely, Bartee 