I recently took up blackout poetry and this process has just resulted in what I think I can say is my favorite piece I have ever written. Read it below.
He’s There Waiting
He nodded glumly. This gradually might coax thousands to ruin just a few dozen.
I didn’t ask.
I came and set it down at his feet.
We shouldn’t stop ever.
“It will be a real chore to work it out.” I said.
He straightened up.
Turn it to the One,
reach up and through the hole my dear little companion. Come here.
Time really had spoken to me.
I closed my hand around his fingers.
I held little pieces of the edge in slow motion.
And then there was a blur and blood began to ooze out.
“Just so you know what it feels like.”
The pain hit me,
the sound of struggle next door,
gasping for breath and finally silence .
Dark night. I waited a long time and then whispered, “Are you alright
families ?
Parents ?
All orphans?
And so I take them in,
and I teach them.
We’ve got to figure out how people without anyone can just buy their food, have money.
The only other option is to force the issue out , up .
I did a lot of work growing up in mind
to bring it up with the Captain first.
See him,
remember to look .
-Beth F
He nodded glumly. This gradually might coax thousands to ruin just a few dozen.
I didn’t ask.
I came and set it down at his feet.
We shouldn’t stop ever.
“It will be a real chore to work it out.” I said.
He straightened up.
Turn it to the One,
reach up and through the hole my dear little companion. Come here.
Time really had spoken to me.
I closed my hand around his fingers.
I held little pieces of the edge in slow motion.
And then there was a blur and blood began to ooze out.
“Just so you know what it feels like.”
The pain hit me,
the sound of struggle next door,
gasping for breath and finally silence .
Dark night. I waited a long time and then whispered, “Are you alright
families ?
Parents ?
All orphans?
And so I take them in,
and I teach them.
We’ve got to figure out how people without anyone can just buy their food, have money.
The only other option is to force the issue out , up .
I did a lot of work growing up in mind
to bring it up with the Captain first.
See him,
remember to look .
-Beth F