Creative funktivitis
Posted: June 8th, 2009, 7:19 pm
On the train ride home from work
I think I contracted a virus.
Airborne you see- coughed into the atmosphere
and into my lungs.
Millions of unseen particles
floating about in my system, gnawing away greedily.
Thoughts were slowly shutting down, ideas vanishing gradually.
By the time I got home,
I'd come down with it, real bad.
Sentences, fragmented. Colors of poetry, faded.
No new thoughts, no musical prose dancing about anymore.
Looked the symptoms up online-
sure enough.
Creative funktivitis.
Like a broken toe, or a diseased mind
there is no cure
but time.
So I wander about the subway systems,
secretly hoping
to find some of my recycled remnants
in the afterthoughts of some unsuspecting tourist
who didn't know she'd stolen
my inspiration.
LT
6-8-09
I think I contracted a virus.
Airborne you see- coughed into the atmosphere
and into my lungs.
Millions of unseen particles
floating about in my system, gnawing away greedily.
Thoughts were slowly shutting down, ideas vanishing gradually.
By the time I got home,
I'd come down with it, real bad.
Sentences, fragmented. Colors of poetry, faded.
No new thoughts, no musical prose dancing about anymore.
Looked the symptoms up online-
sure enough.
Creative funktivitis.
Like a broken toe, or a diseased mind
there is no cure
but time.
So I wander about the subway systems,
secretly hoping
to find some of my recycled remnants
in the afterthoughts of some unsuspecting tourist
who didn't know she'd stolen
my inspiration.
LT
6-8-09