"I" (White Picket Fence)

A commentary on fences and the letter I

a man with 1000 morals

and exactly 3 goals

asked me why I hate the letter "I"

I don't care why I do

I just know I do

stop pointing fingers at my dreams

maybe i'll stop staring at

your white picket fence

I have no great message

stop asking

I think I will survive

without messages and goals

they're too tangible

like when a priest tells me to listen to god and gives me a cross

what am i supposed to do with the cross?

you can take the message, the goal, and the cross

but you can't take my dreams

they're how I sleep well

you have drugs, I have dreams

of someone I met for the first time

but it was someone I used to know

she was holding a wedding dress

and wearing ray bans

and telling me to prune the roses

but  I wasn't holding any tools

just a book of quotes

on clever things to say

when you're in situations

where people expect you to have answers for certain things

that are hard to have answers for

like why I hate the letter "I"

 

Author's Note

ignore grammar

Reviews

[Jeanmarie Flaherty]

"but I wasn't holding any tools

just a book of quotes

on clever things to say"

Amazing lines here. I loved this piece, the urgency and certainty of it. Beautifully done, powerfully written, excellent work!!

~jmm.