Sunday, August 26, 2012

Why I Write, Part x+138: Playing the Victim

No doubt you'll complain that I'm playing the victim,
But you exhaust my mind's whole exhaust system.
I parked your complaints – a whole train – from here as far
As the edge of my up-to-the-floodgates anger reservoir,
and you pump so much hot air in my general direction
That it won't all go out the vents, so I made a correction.
I send it through the same pumps as the mire
That your misplaced morality and cliches misinspire.
The whole mess overflows when you say not to write.
It's the one thing I do that can help clear the lines.

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