Poetry Series (Sleep): Series

( queen mab )

Poetry Series (Sleep): Free Verse

Morning
the coffee's worn off
three cups and still couldn't think straight
once upon a time you were a mermaid
three cups and it's just now sinking in
nothing I do is
battling insurmountable odds

breakfast tastes like ashes of real caffeine
you understood me like no one
I can't even summon the
passion and fire and ice
caffeinated carbonated in 3 cups to go

I'm waking up for the first time
the coffee grounds warm us up from
music blasting from tin rattling speakers
empty lyrics and things I'd never known
morning DJs giving out good news to weary souls.
“Welcome to the Morning Show. It looks to be a beautiful day.”

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in news:

• you can find my poetry @ my poetry tag over on shadows_of. the sleep series is the latest in assignments. i may or may not post the papers i'm writing/ have written over this semester. would anyone even care?
• am disappointed, some, as i spent $14 on lunch. i hate spending over 5.
• registered for class this morning. it includes a class on black women in media, american jazz, modern culture, and three french classes (communication, reading and history). if i take and pass two more clep tests, i will more than likely be on schedule for graduation next spring. YAY. sadly, can't take anything in july.
• why? cause there's poland for 2 weeks (with a few days in paris), and an invite to hang out in NYC when i get back. can't pass that up, can i? broke as a joke, of course, but still.

have another hour to kill before meeting with Wayne Miller (poet), but i don't quite know what to say to him. maybe i'll arrive late and hope someone else takes the lead.

did i tell you that i was turned down for the air traffic control position?

i feel as if everyone is listening and laughing at me when i walk by with these squeaky flip flops on. i can't walk soft enough not to hear that wet and high piched sound.

i wish my life had more poetry and less long hours of boredom.


like i said before... 3 papers and an oral presentation over the course of the next 3 classes of my remaining classes. i'm failing linguistics. but i'll pass everything else, i think. maybe a c in french, b in english... b/c in hip hop. average, minus the fail. ugh. one paper is written in french. one paper's close to 10 pages long. i am a mite overwhelmed. on the plus side, apparently no tests during finals week??

in conclusion, johnny depp, jensen ackles, and smithandwesson. that is all.