Saturday, December 11, 2010

Explanation #2

I wrote this poem in the dark
I wrote this poem in urine
I wrote this poem while being chased by nudists
I wrote this poem in a Confessional
Marilyn Hacker told me not to write this poem
I tried writing this poem in Iambic Pentameter
I wrote this poem because I was aroused
I wrote this poem after imagining myself in the shower
I wrote this poem and then woke up in the shower
I wrote this poem after listening to a recording of myself crying
I wrote this poem after realizing that it wasn’t me crying
I wrote this poem in my sleep
I wrote this poem because I don’t sleep
I wrote this poem after drinking too much antiseptic
I wrote this poem because I’m impotent
I wrote this poem in the womb
I am repentant for impregnating this paper with my poem
I refuse to acknowledge this poem
I originally wrote this poem in French forgetting that I don’t know French
I wrote this poem after yelling at a homeless person
I wrote this poem after yelling at God
I wrote this poem because my mother told me to stop talking so much
I wrote this poem after losing my train of thought at a metro station
I have no idea why I’m writing this poem
I should have stopped writing this poem years ago
I wrote this poem after hearing strange noises from my brother’s room
I wrote this poem because I’m an only child
I wrote this poem as a means to get even with my poetry
I wrote this poem in order to map out my body’s twists and turns
I wrote this poem in case there is a Communist uprising
I wrote this poem after Senator Joseph McCarthy interrogated me for being a homosexual and a Communist.
I wrote this poem after ending my affair with JFK
I wrote this poem in a dress
I wrote this poem by mistake
I wrote this poem while making mistakes in a dress
I wrote this poem with icing on my chest
Why would you assume that I wrote this poem?
I wrote this poem after 40 days and nights in a dumpster
I wrote this poem shortly after my testicles dropped
I found this poem in a test tube
This poem wrote itself
I broke a car window with this poem
I made my father cry with this poem

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