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A Poem by Ben Taylor

I considered using carefully crafted prose,
lines of sterile complexity, to express
my lugubrious state, my agitated demeanor. 
But why use a scalpel, precise and exact language,
when I can use an old Exact-o knife,
blade pitted and fucked with years of misuse. 

F**k it.

this situation is too f*****g heavy
i'm exhausted from screaming into the bathroom mirror
telling myself this is where i want to be.
i can't decide what i should put between the covers of my pages
and i sure as s**t can't think of a title for this trainwreck
of a teen novel.
maybe i should try my hand at something other than writing
because i obviously haven't done the main character
of this goddamn mess
justice.
i should have written the ending years ago
but i decided to just let these endless pages trail on
and on
and f*****g on
and it gets so goddamned tedious.
read til the end
catch my next novel
another 365 pages of s**t upon s**t.
listen to me clear my throat
until it bleeds
and we all realize i have nothing to say
nothing to write
nothing to do with myself.

this book is nothing new
i've been done before
another carbon copy college graduate
who doesn't give a s**t.
let's all stand by and see how it all turns out
maybe the ending will redeem this mindless stream of consciousness
how the hell did this get published
but it will just be another year of the same.

© 2015 Ben Taylor


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Added on October 15, 2015
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Ben Taylor
Ben Taylor

Columbia, MO



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