Monday, November 26, 2007

Questions

How is it
I feel your absence--
a black hole in my gut--
but I cannot feel Earth turning?

You're gone--
I know this--
yet the questions suck away in my belly.
The world lies still beneath my feet,
but I know it is spinning.

6 comments:

LCM said...

Version 3--yes, dammit, that's right. And hopefully the final.

Just one more question--what about, for the last two lines:

the world lies, still beneath my feet,
but I know it is spinning.

hrmmmm?

Jiling 林基玲 said...
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Jiling 林基玲 said...

how is it
i feel the world
spinning with me
im spinning too
w e a v i n g
webs and webs
of questions
that suck my belly
like hungry dragons
with tapeworms
s
t
u
c
k
inside
?

Derek said...

So I say no comma. Let 'em ponder over it and figure it out on their own, dammit! I'm grading papers...AHHHH!

LCM said...

ok. No comma. Now it's done.

Whew. Is it poetry contest material...?