"so much things to say" - just finished this - took me about ten minutes to write - I wanted to break away from the highly structured dense weight of my last poem and write something loose and free, and a bit ironic - the first two and a half lines come from the wonderful Bob Marley song, "So Much Things To Say"


So much things to say

So much things to say
right now I got so much
things to say on social media

and in my prayers, but you know
speaking into infinity brings infinity
into your words so here I go again

trying to do that trick in verse in
this what you would call meta-
poetics but man do I sound full

of shit loose like a spinning
machine gun without a gunner
spewing words like they were

undigested pieces of pizza
pepperoni mushrooms and ground
beef spattered across this page

in what looks like a poem oh
right yeah that is what this is
supposed to be a brain-tickler

but I can’t stop at that line above
because it’s just too clever and
doesn’t stand for anything.

                                                                                     

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