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Poetry

my keyboard is a minefield. my mind is broken glass. when my body bursts apart, the shards catch light and look like blinking stars. ( 1 year of poetry )

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youcan'twritepoetry

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by NeonNebulae

by NeonNebulae

                                    
                                              my 4th grade     teacher tOld me
youcan'twritepoetry
    after    i tried ever so hard
 to make     a POEM 4 
m(eye) mOther's      d(ey)
                          youcannotwritepoetry
beca(us)se you don't UNDERSTAND
how. it. works.   >>>>>
i      don't know about 
THE     ---> GEARS ⚙️⚙️
theBuilding ---> BLOCKS📦📦
                          the t(each)er looked at my notpoetry
and scrunched his face up
up 
     up 
          up up ⬆️⬆️
v(ear)ING into AY paper 
VORE T(eh)KS 🌪
                          IT'S WRONG🚨!!
IT'S WRONG!🚨🚨!
IT'S WRONG!!🚨🚨🚨
hesaidhesaidhesaidhe       said t(each)er
it's NOT
A
B
A
B
                          "what is 'aybeeaybee' ???" ?
(i asked) ? the (teach)er 
                          the (teach)  er
& the NEAR
BY (stew)dents
   shook their heads
like.  {wet trout 
with sopping mops of glistening 
curly black     pubic hair shaped into spher
oid afros from    glue !!!}}
                          the teacher
and       the  near^(by) (stew)
       dents
looked.   at me    and REcited
pr(ow!)dly: 
aybeeaybee
aybeeseeaybeesee
aybeeaybeaybeeaybee
(l(ow!)der!)
AYBEEAYBEE
AYBEESEEAYBEESEE
AYBEEAYBEAYBEEAYBE
(l(ow!)der!)
A Y  G E R I A T R I C B E E A Y B E E  
A Y B E E S  M A R M A L A D E E E A Y B E E S E E A Y B E E A Y B E A Y  T O N S I L S B E E A F R E N C H H O R N Y B E 
                          . . . 
                          i shook my head 
and      tried    again
i      made anOther poem
b(ah)t iT wAsn't l(eye)k
th(uh) r(eh)st --
it
DIDN'T 
have /(:&£-)-
the aybeeaybee,
no /(:&£-)-
it was more like:
eks-w(eye) eks-w(eye) 
zee-d(uh)ble-(you) 
w(eye)-vee
                          that'snotpoetry
tHeY ALL sAid
                          ➡️IT'S RUBBISH🗑🗑🗑🚛
                          it was rubbish
no matter how many times i tried
tO WRiTe a PROPER pOeM...
                          on my mOther's day,
every-1 r(ed) tHeir aybeeaybee poems
X-cept 4 me -- i sat in the CHAPEL ✝️
and cr(eye)'t
but QUIETLY
so no-1 (wood) (here)??? MI! 
                          and i vowed to never write poetry again,
since i w(uz) so t(ERR)ble @it forever
                          the 🔚