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How Terrible It Must Be to Be a Muse
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the pianerpaintist
artist with a soft smile for sunwinged birds
even if he says they're duller than crows
ravens clamor in his desk drawers,
(but finches at the windows)
he knows
cliche or not there's beauty in a rose
or a skyscraperline on the horizon
something shiny and alive
and easy to keep eyes on
when you're sitting on a bathroom floor
with yourself
trying to be born with Eels in your ears
and all the world asleep or dying
or shuddering with you
i wish the world was girl+(boy+city)
no care of cliches or crows
but it can't be, he knows
i know
((i'll never be qualified to write this
i may have gotten it all wrong
maybe he will say
something that shatters
my ribcage
but he said i was a lovely poet
i had to))
artist with a soft smile for sunwinged birds
even if he says they're duller than crows
ravens clamor in his desk drawers,
(but finches at the windows)
he knows
cliche or not there's beauty in a rose
or a skyscraperline on the horizon
something shiny and alive
and easy to keep eyes on
when you're sitting on a bathroom floor
with yourself
trying to be born with Eels in your ears
and all the world asleep or dying
or shuddering with you
i wish the world was girl+(boy+city)
no care of cliches or crows
but it can't be, he knows
i know
((i'll never be qualified to write this
i may have gotten it all wrong
maybe he will say
something that shatters
my ribcage
but he said i was a lovely poet
i had to))
...and have your inner workings peered at and badly understood.
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I'm loving the richness of your layers here. There's that familiar longing for (x) and how beautiful it is despite its- or even because of its- simplisity. Then that vs. the cliche, and that whole formbidable concept. Throw the perspective of a muse over all this and it's quite lovely. He's right, you are a lovely poet!