You would think, by this poem, that i'm interested in you.

for judy

I lied to you about the earth. About how earthworms crawl like the civilians that they are,

to the bottom of most protozoa. How they prefer maple over oak leaves; clover over grass.

As I recall you mother would pin my gloves to the sleeve of my coat in some simultaneous embarrassment

under the pretense of loss. Did you ever say something to someone that you were forced to say?

Did you ever leave before leaving? Come before coming home? I never wanted you believing

in worms or the earth. Not the cavities they create. Not the salty juice they crawl home thru.

Reviews

[Neville]

I go fishing too.. not caught a thing for longer than I dare to print.. the guy I bought my hooks from told me that these things will catch on their own.. I took him at his word.... maybe I need to go find some worms.... An intriguing write, for sure.. the title hooked me and then I was played until the very end..... Cheers, Neville

[h d e rushin]

I love you

[Corset]

Some people are stubborn in the head, people like me who feel more than they think, people who believe in the small white of the ying and the yang regardless of what they say or do. People hide very important facts about themselves for fear that others will not accept who they are as they are. People are so judgmental, even the ones who try the most to keep an open mind. There are reasons behind everything a person says or does, sometimes they are forced by situations of the heart to do things or say things they would rather not say or do. Its our job as their friends to try and understand. Besides, Earthworms make for great fishing I hear.

[h d e rushin]

I went fishing yesterday evening with a tub of red worms and a cool Mountain Dew/. I didn't catch s**t. So the myth about fishing is still a myth worth repeating, that earthworms make for the best of anything that man can conger/

Poems are a kind of hiding my friend. A kind of hiding in plain sight, if we let our guards down long enough to realize that most of it is a derivative of hurt; a summation of great pain or yearning. I never understood the ying or yang nor it's opposite, flip flops or six inch stiletto's/lol/ I love you so much....dana

[Corset]

I love Mountain Dew, that soda has enough caffeine in it to fish by itself, fishing is more fun with a good book I hear. sometimes fish can be abstinent, sometimes they'll do without that hook for years at a time and others they think damn that worm looks so juicy it just might be worth dying and gasping for breath in between trying to keep it's poor head under. It's usually just real painfully disappointing but sometimes it not, and it's the not knowing for sure which way we can slip that hook with the least collateral while still keeping the memories nice.