Monday, January 14, 2013

Perfect on the Outside


for Alexandria Binanti

She is pounding, planning, placing,
On the wide scale, waiting, listening,
Everything for the wedding.
At 10 am, a possible bridesmaid dress fits
The faces of the kids from Korea.
That fancy fail cools overnight.


Barely Monday this morning,
Happy coffee makes her OCD friend grateful.
No complex assembly required.
This girl gleefully described three inches.
She needs strong people to load heavy things.


2 comments:

  1. "This girl gleefully described three inches.
    She needs strong people to load heavy things."

    Fitting for a facebook poem. Because how really do you get to know someone when the truth has been filtered through social conscious? As the subject I'll agree, I give three inches...heavy things are meant for people that really know me.

    I like it. I think you are on to something yet simultaneously completely off base, which consequently is the point.

    Looking forward to seeing more.

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  2. Thanks! I know these aren't necessarily "accurate" portraits of people - I am just using the material provided to create something new. The concept of found poetry isn't my original idea, but so far I haven't seen many people using social media to find the words for their work. It's not easy to write these, but it's kind of like creating magnetic poetry.

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