monstro de papel

murder of a paper monster

I was so willing to rip you
throw you to the wind
watch you flutter
vanish to the sky

I saw you under
 snowfall's melt
 translucent and pink
staring at me with an occasional blink and twitch

I wept all over you
my hand-writing scrawled
all over you

words I wanted to erase but now that they're written, they won't go away

I should have coated you with white out
or stamped you with a sharpie until you bruised

Or maybe, from now on
before I put pen to paper
or fingertip to keypad
I'll think of your little corpse

and pause.

Reviews

[Francesca]

good poem, it shows how much things can change, from being in love and happy to being angry and vengeful or sad and hopeless.
I have two favorite parts, the first one for how you described it and the second because it made me laugh:
"I saw you under
snowfall's melt
translucent and pink
staring at me with an occasional blink and twitch"


"I should have coated you with white outor stamped you with a sharpie until you bruised"

good job with this poem :)

[Edgar A Stonehill]

This is a great piece. A welcome deviation from the angst and love poems I've seen posted tonight.

Your words reflect deliberate choices of languages.

Thanks for posting this. It is refreshing.