That's Entertainment

That’s Entertainment

an unreliable narrator

had an encounter w/ a

strange woman in a bar

& emerged unscathed

            hush

a fly-by-night relator

subtly tried to refract

onus after pestering a

gratified man to admit

            hush

an unscrupulous teller

attempts an alteration

to not revolve around

misfortunes of others

            hush

on the outside

looking in

every overture to the

language of

            small complex

stories

is mere

entertainment

a choose

your own

adventure

           

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I thought about working on my ‘Sillyheart’ edit while I ate lunch today but I found myself pecking away at a poem.  Adam Baldwin added some new songs to a Spotify playlist and one of the gems was The Jam’s ‘That’s Entertainment’ – hence the title. I rolled a bunch of words around in my hands until I came up with the above.

I am also still working on a short story called ‘Corner Store’. It keeps bumping around in my brain so even with the edit on tap I have to follow through for Bertie and Mattie. I’ve got five pages written so far which is less than nothing but it is a beginning. It’s all in my head and yet I struggle to find the words. It’s terribly frustrating when you can see a story but it won’t land on the page.

Another heat wave has gripped the Maritime  and lack of sleep has me feeling a little queasy. I’m not one to complain too much about any weather anymore but I’m not enjoying the discomfort and the tossy turny nights. It makes me feel more stabby than poetic. Oh, the humidity. Stay cool.

In propinquity,

Nic