sketch ten

Maybe the title is the first thing you should write,
it gives you direction, gives a heading to the course.
but maybe it's about being lost, tossed into the mix
the thick middle of a circumstance beyond titles,
names get in the way here, why give a clue--

should the out be easier than the in?

a good reader should lose sleep over good poems,
especailly when the writer abuses the audicence
gives no direction, no purpose and no helping hand.

hope is there for the claiming,
like a dishonest lost and found,
like liar's poker on a sunday morning.
if you can't trust the press to run inkly smudged
then the line would always be blury regardless.

maybe the title is the last thing you write,
a summary, a nice happy ending
with whipped topping.
give your audience a chance to turn back
by knowing the answer before the question:

interpretation gets all manners of faith into trouble anyway.



latenight soundtrack: teenage fanclub grand prix; natelie merchant tigerlilly; cat stevens best of; tim hardin reason to believe; nick cave and the bad seeds no more shall we part