Jacob’s Breaking Ladder and Signal Loss

Writer’s block

The transmission…

Ophelia won’t play

She just laughs like a hyena in the kitchen window

Her crazy face plastered to the glass

And you’re standing there

With your pen in your hand

…not the time for purity sweetheart

I need you

An empty page is so lonely

I’m an Auschwitz monkey

Digging around in the ash and embers

Finding only bones

In this field of asphalt and concrete

It’s sterile without you

Way too sterile

The meat hangs off my arms

My age is on the table like loose ammunition

Is that all you got?

Cuidado cabron 

I’ll smoke you in silence

And say not a word

You’re starving me out homegirl

Oh-the crazy ones

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Really like the opening stanza. A strong write on the familiar subject of writer's block. My muse is both lazy and fickle. She frequently clears off to Blackpool on holiday for weeks on end. It is such a disappointment when the pen is ready and the words won't flow.

Chris

[Shannon]

Yes it is, and when she does show, you’re neck deep in something else lol. Thank you

[Chris Shaw]

And that is what you call sod's law :))

[Kelly Scheppers]

"An empty page is so lonely." Writer's block. It depletes the thought process and aggravates the soul. Love your reference here, and the depiction of the monkey. Very cleverly construed!

[Shannon]

Yeah, I was in a dry spell for a bit…very frustrating. You take your pen out and it just turns into a play by play of the “nothing interesting happening previous six hours”. Thank you… my favorite was the loose ammunition quip. What do I do with all this?

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I like the references to Hamlet and to the camps...
the idea of being smoked, the meat hanging off arms.
but the girl is driving him insane with her own insanity...

She is like an empty page...not all there, nothing written there...just blank...
and yes, an empty page is a sterile one...a pen that cannot leave words.

this is really an interesting, absorbing piece of writing.
I like the place I can go with your writings.
j.

[Shannon]

You’re so kind brother. Thank you very much. The muse is like that-a crazy girlfriend, and your standing out in the driveway, “You told me to come by.” lolol

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Like Evelyn in Play Misty for Me.....