(With papers in front of my face)
It started like this.
Paper face-mask
Clean like I’m not
Smooth like I’m not.
Balanced cautious rhyme and timing
On classical language foundations.
I indented lines.
I punctuated. Interestingly.
I a-b-a-b-c-c’d
I a-a-b-b-c-c-d-d’d
Shoot, I even used QUATRAINS.
It's an edited version of a much more corny poem about the change from a nervous poet to, I guess, a slam poet. Because those are opposites.
Honestly, I've found myself having a hard time writing anything but spoken word-type stuff. I mean, with poetry at least. Fiction is still the same overwrought silliness that it's always been. I'm not sure if this is an evolution in my style or if I need to control it. I feel like at a certain point I'm just going to be going on stages and talking. Like "Oh man, you know what I don't like? Grapefruit. Why do people eat grapefruit? Even Tropicana's up on that business, selling Grapefruit juice. You don't see Tropicana hydrochloric acid, why would they sell grapefruit juice?"
I think there's a poem there. BRB, gonna go throw away everything I know about poetry and write about fruit.
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