fifty foot queenie
November 2010
49 posts
October 2010
52 posts
Loser alert.
I have a new tumblr in addition to this one. If any of you wants to read my self-indulgent poetry, please check out http://eideticpoetics.tumblr.com/.
“
I am very bothered when I think
of the bad things I have done in my life.
Not least that time in the chemistry lab
when I held a pair of scissors by the blades
and played the handles
in the naked lilac flame of the Bunsen burner;
then called your name, and handed them over.
O the unrivalled stench of branded skin
as you slipped your thumb and middle finger in,
then couldn’t shake off the two burning rings. Marked,
the doctor said, for eternity.
Don’t believe me, please, if I say
that was just my butterfingered way, at thirteen,
of asking you if you would marry me.
i’mma let you finish: I Am Very Bothered by Simon Armitage
I read stuff like this and wonder why the hell I write poetry because I have nothing better to offer to the world.
