angry keys

angry keys

 

 

the typewriter slid off the table of

contents

discontented

with the fingers

trying to assuage the pain

of heart

 

feeling used 

and wasted

on sentimentality

when uses could be more direct

and fruitful

 

like writing mad essays

on the state of the world

or some other significant pamphlet

promoting the silences

of verbal assaults

 

but poetry

self-deprecation

forlorn syllables

crying vowels

sympathy searching for empathy

 

all wasted

sentimentality

of wares

the typewriter slid off the table

of contents

before the pages were assigned

numbers

now people are just numbers

lists of the missing or dead

a head count

a body count

but no heart count

 

numbers, pages

content

 

the table is slick with

tears on varnish

 

we must wake

write poems to convince our typing

machines to stay

convince them

our words are worth rekindling

the strained relationship

 

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

10/29/24

Reviews

[Thomas W Case]

Powerful writing. Great work.