short poem day

May 1, 2023

/ HJ / Leave a comment

lost
in a book
in music with words
in my own head’s thoughts
of solid phrases and anti-self-care behaviors
and i can’t think of how to
just get
out

~~~

thinking
about writing more
songs
poems to music
phrases that match up
with a tune and orchestration
and wanting to
maybe
perform it all
at some point
[soon?]

~~~

what happens
when you start thinking
in poetry
and try to bring others
along for the
ride

can you teach them how
or is it still just
such
a vibe?

April 28, 2023

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the one good thing
about having sound
turned up on my phone
once more
is that i have different tones
for different friends’ texts
and now i know [again]
what to get excited for

March 23, 2023

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oh no
i
gotta wake up
better
today has been
full of blunders
and it’s not even 8:30
yet

~~~

today’s date
3/23/23
32323
i know it’s human-made
and kind of slap-dash at that
but it still pleases my
little crow brain
to see the numbers
all aligned and repeated and palindromed and all that

~~~

my stomach is churning
and my heart is racing
and i have no signals to say
if it’s anxiety or physicality
or some weird mixture of the two in me
but either way
i’m just a little
uncomfortable
today