Getting Started

Start and restart,

start again,

no,

start over,

no,

still not it,

start again,

no,

erase that,

start once more,

no, no, no, no,

These words aren’t

stringing together

like I want them to,

Okay,

Take a breath…

No,

Start again,

no, no,

what rhymes with balm?

Maelstrom?

no,

no,

erase, erase,

start again,

start over,

start once again,  

one more time fingers,

brain,

let’s work together and

get this jumble of words

dancing around the bonfire like

savages onto this

mocking blank page.

(Cracking knuckles)

Okay,

okay,

…okay…