Monthly Archives: October 2013

if i am the poem (bad poetry)

if I am the poem

and the page is the canvass

and my words the paint

then i am the painter

and if i am the painter

and the canvass is the 2x4s

and my brush is the hammer and nails

then i am the carpenter

and if i am the carpenter

and the house is the ocean

and the subcontractors are the sailers

than i am a boat

and if i am a boat

and my oars are my pasionate yet witty insights

and my mast is my refusal to use capital letters like e e cummings

and my ocean is myself which is to say my ocean is my inkwell

which means each time i write i must dip into me

then i am the poem