Daily Archives: Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Georgie Boy

I read this week’s Read Write Poem prompt in which I read about the PEN Poem Relay for Shi_Tao, a journalist imprisoned by the Chinese government. After that, I read this news article about Bush criticizing China’s human rights issues. These inspired to write this poem, although it is really not for the prompt. I will be writing something specific for it later.

This is not a skeltonic in the strictest sense, but I borrow from the form heavily for this work.

It is incendiary. You don’t have to agree. I just ask you to listen.

-Nicole

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“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
-James Baldwin

Georgie boy,
what do your words mean?
Georgie boy,
your scream is not a scream.
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Forgotten Conversations

I had been thinking about this piece since Monday. This title was turning over and over again in my brain; I ended up writing it for Three Word Wednesday, since this week’s words, “million”, “time”, and “unnoticed”, lent themselves well to my churning thoughts. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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A million voices have weaved themselves together. They lie as chaotic tapestry, matted hair, within the recesses of my brain. I can no longer distinguish who said what and when, but unlike erased and empty chalkboards which bare nothing but black blankness, my mind holds on to ghost strand memories. I see the placeholders of words, but only as faint outlines containing invisible space.
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