Sometimes I don't understand the point of a poem. I can flit and float about, word-play the ever-living shit out of a thought or a feeling or an interaction or a situation, but how do I wrap it up? How do I get out of the poem? End on an image. But what is the point? What should the poem be? Do I need to create some sort of narrative?
It's just frustrating. It's frustrating to feel like I can only get so far with a poem. I can come up with the dopest image, fragment, whatever, with all of the swagger, all of the attitude, grit, guts, everything, it's everything!, but then I can't find my last image, can't find the meaning or purpose, the depth, the layers that are needed to make me cry, my customary reaction to a finished poem.
I need to keep writing. I need to keep trying. And failing. And crying. And just, I just need to keep going with it.
It's just frustrating. It's frustrating to feel like I can only get so far with a poem. I can come up with the dopest image, fragment, whatever, with all of the swagger, all of the attitude, grit, guts, everything, it's everything!, but then I can't find my last image, can't find the meaning or purpose, the depth, the layers that are needed to make me cry, my customary reaction to a finished poem.
I need to keep writing. I need to keep trying. And failing. And crying. And just, I just need to keep going with it.
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