I’m doing Important Business!
Do not distract me, world!
It must be done
And you cannot stop me!
So get your act together
And get out of my way.
Because this is Important Business
And will be done
Whether or not you live through it.

I've been held captive
By my own life
Which I sometimes think is all an imaginary cover-up
For something terrible.
It's held me inside
In the dark
In the cold
For days
On
End.
But today I will escape!
And be set free
By myself
By my captor.
I will no longer be a hostage!
As of today.
And it will be warm
And bright
And beautiful.

Everyone is stupid!
No one understands.
My brain works much faster
And their's are all bland.

No one ever gets me!
They don't understand.
No one ever lets me
Let my words be grand.

Everyone is stupid
And they don't understand.
My thought so far surpass them
That they look like grains of sand.

I read recently
That free verse is not poetry
Will never be poetry
Never was poetry.
Sometimes I question it myself.
But the writer made it sound so...
Indecent.
Now when I set down to write
If it has no specific rhyme and meter
Then I feel *****.
Like I'm the lewd young girl
Who's gone around the block a few too many times
And then gone straight to her grandma's house.

It makes it hard to enjoy  the trip.

I've felt discouraged recently.
I think I need to remind myself that I'm not a real poet.
I need to remind myself
That I just write what comes out of my fingers
Not any form of literary artwork.
I think that if I remember that
My words form more of a journal than anything,
Then I will be able to write again.
And maybe it will be something
I actually enjoy reading.

The scanner is my weapon
I wield it with authority
And power.
BAM!
$7.95
POW!
$20.65
ZAP!
Your entire soul!

They give me what I demand
And leave with
The tail end of the bargain.

I haven't written in three days.
I've been so exhausted
My body has been in
A constant state of achy misery
My mind a never-ending buzz
Of things I must get done.

Too many things.

I could get them  done
If my body's ache
Would
Just
Stop.