Slam Poetry 1

Slam Poetry 1

A Poem by Octi
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Doing it online since there are no local ones

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A Night of No Sleep
You sit on the edge of your bed,
surrounded by complete darkness
with the exception of a rather large
area of light emitting from where your hands should be.

You read the latest
little light gray bubble,
and quickly type back a response.
Swchoop,
your phone replies 
when you tap that white up arrow
in the green circle.

Your screen is moved up
as your latest message is in
a green bubble.

You check the time.
It's past two A.M.

As you lay down in your bed,
you put the phone
face-down
on the nightstand next to you
and turn off the ringer.

'I won't,'
you promise yourself as you turn over one your side away from the phone,
'I won't look at it if it goes off.'

A couple seconds later,
you are almost asleep
when it buzzes
and you can see the light 
push back at the darkness around you.

You use all of your self control
to not roll over and look at the text.

'It's just a message,'
you remind yourself.
'A message that can wait until morning.'

Two minutes go by and you're almost asleep when it buzzes again and the light fills the room.
But you used up all your self control,
so you reach over and pick it up
to see what message you claimed could wait 
until morning.

© 2019 Octi


Author's Note

Octi
Let me know what y'all think. I plan to continue. I'd also like some topics.
I know it's been a while since I posted anything, I've had a lot of homework recently.

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I think you pretty much summed up the state of our lives with this writing.. for me, cell phones are something I wish were never invented! I think you did a good job relaying to the reader a typical "cell phone night"... one typo, last stanza..so see should be to see..

Posted 5 Years Ago


Octi

5 Years Ago

Thank you!
I am guilty of doing this. Picking up the phone to check the message when I really should be sleeping. What is really frustrating is when the buzz is some random message from an app reminding you to upgrade it or something, and you get to try to fall asleep all over again with that sick feeling in your stomach that the message you were waiting for hasn't come yet.

As for topics, write whatever moves you. Whatever rolls off your fingers.

Posted 5 Years Ago



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Added on March 13, 2019
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