The Atlanta Triad:
Don't Meta-Poem Me, Bitch
Shut up!
I can't even hurt without you telling me it's dumb!
Can't even write a poem without you saying it's been done
And
you never let me speak
To friends or family
I am drowning in
the silence and you tell me that I'm weak.
"Read another
comic book."
"Go and watch some more TV."
"Push
it all under the rug and maybe it will go away."
And to
soothe me you say that it will go away
That in five
years's time I won't remember this pain
That this poem in itself
is a waste
Any better ideas,
you know it all bitch?
No?
Then shut
up!