Monday, December 23, 2024

i promise to be better to myself / rather than to just think i should be thinking art




occasionally i catch myself looking in the mirror
as if in askance 
with something to say 
but i find there is nothing -- just a strange face

the moment collapses around itself 
almost like a soufflé

when i walk away i wonder if all that 
is really true 
i always have something moving around
turning and planning

but why the pauses and the sudden looks 
not even the scribbling of notes

it it like going to the ledge to take a picture
and having no film in the camera 
but doing this on purpose 

i promise to be better to myself 
rather than to just think i should be thinking art

or murdering delightful ideas by being blank
when i choose to look 

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