weekly scribblings #76 writing a blank

i wrote this for the writing a blank challenge, but then got distracted by the 4th of july holiday, and then by summer in general. this a was a fun challenge, really enjoyed, sorry i missed the deadline

i draw a blank and put it in a frame

a gilded thing

i make a blanket statement

                and sign my name

 

and like a cockroach in the toilet bowl

i know its beautiful

and the fish in the fish bowl never knows it so good

and like the endless supply of old mattresses

behind rotting old apartment complexes

the way the trashman hauls them away

the way the tenets bring more

we forget how to sleep

                we forget how to pay our rent

i draw a blank

you write a check

 

i draw a blank and a tree springs up

i draw a blank and the lady in a lake floats up with some-kind-of-a-stick

i draw a blank, and it is good and it is right

i draw a blank and a blank draws back

 

nothing surprises no one

or everyone, or anyone

nothing surprises anyone

anymore

history is not a mystery

it’s a rollercoaster

                i’ll draw you a picture

but need to be psychic to see it

need to be drunk

                to buy a ticket

 

i draw a blank, and a critic screams fake

so i draw another

but this time with more thunder

like shooting rubber bands at stars

like seeing angels in parking lot oil stains

a think tank running out of think

a tank with no artillery shells

shooting blanks and blaming that blanketiy-blank-blank

                                                                                   for all of it

like three blackbirds on a tree limb

like playing the shell game on the seashore

i’m speaking only in blanks, i’m throwing blank paint by the bucket

all of it sticking to nothing

i count backwards from infinity, draw a blank and think

everything is going to be ok

and a blank is a blank is a blank

is a blank

by any other name

i draw a blank

and history is a mystery

is a weather report

is a primitive night sport

is a pretty horse

                is a burning bush

i draw a blank

nothing new

i draw a blank

                and so do you

 

posted for the writers pantry at poets and storytellers united