Friday, September 9, 2022

Writing 200 Blog Post 4 - Incoherence

Note: Just messing around with stream of consciousness / free writing. Don't take anything too seriously.


Dangling real estate, molly-coddled mouths

An insipid insinuation, birth and death of a nation

Integumentary, integral, grating ears like tin-roof timber howls

Fingers pointing, missing the point, sharpened to a point

Raise the stakes and thrust them through the hearts

Of the vampires you imagined so long ago

Who every so often creep from your sleeping brain

And leap the stain on the wall to crawl over the ceiling, 

Feeling the real world, fingers unfurled and pointing

Disjointing

Eenie, meenie, minie, moe

Shall the world forever go

Traipsing in a festal gown

Round a lawn that's turning brown

Running faster every minute

Never pausing, for infinit

y?


No.


In the moss-green automobiles we choke, the smoke surrounds us

Bounds us

Gives us eyes to see our doom, impending through the smoggy gloom and 

Drowns us

In inescapable, insoluble,


Incoherence.

A game of checkers, ham and cheese, the answer

Must lie somewhere in this pile of discarded microwaves 

Mattresses, mufflers, milk-cartons, mittens

Somewhere in this infinite library of babbling Babel

Is a phrase in a language no one reads

Knit by chance into the heel of a sock, worn, discarded, forgotten

Longing but unable to scream "STOP" and halt the world 

For just a second in her frenzied dances

And explicate the circumstances


But. That's just a theory, after all.

And if the frogs end their ponderous battle in the creek

Perhaps I'll test it, burn it, let it rest

Perhaps I'll lie down and look for answers in the clouds and the trees

They're as likely there, after all,

As in every word the human hand ever wrote

And maybe we've written enoug

1 comment:

  1. I learned a new word today: Integumentary. The integumentary system is the same as the endocrine system, "the set of organs forming the outermost layer of an animal's body" (Wikipedia). I don't know if I WANT to know why integumentary was in your stream of consciousness, but that's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing your free-writing. It was super funky and I loved it. I like the irony at the very end that "written enoug" is incomplete.

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