Nightcafe Creation
Get the laptop out
Sitdown
Get comfortable
Position your hands on the keys
Try to think of something to write
Write a few words,
think they sound good
Reread the words,
realize how dumb they sound
And erase the whole thing
Try again
Write
Read
Erase
Try again
Until you get something
That halfway sounds decent
Then submit
And wait for it to be accepted
Once it is posted,
realize it was stupid after all.
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Comments (4)
Noooo, nothing that you've published is stupid! You take that back, woman!
Ah, that'll leave a smudge. To go with all the other smudges I've tossed in the trash can, lol.
Oh I have been there, yet in the end at least I wrote something and tried, rather than give up
This poem and Ashley Lima’s The Wall slid into my notifications several seconds apart. Are you working on the same prompt? Great poem, by the way!