Day 5: Pieces from an Untitled Poem

2008-01-24

 

Pencil on printer paper

 

Progressive Boink's "Daily Drawing Experiment." Current theme is illustrating all of the poems I wrote for a college Poetry Writing course.

 

My third poem for the class. People were divided on whether the poem should be finished or not. It works for me as-is.

 

"Pieces from an Untitled Poem"

 

Scrawl it down on a blue post-

card--"Wish I were here, XO"--

and send it to someone I

don't know.

 

?

 

Until

I'm a ghostwriter with an

inkless ballpoint pen, trying

to scratch out my name again.

Done