A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

self-talk shush

She listens to the radio 
for the voices 
she won't know 
to block and blot and overwrite 
the voice that she
has known in life
the music's bonus antidote 
in thrum and drone 
in pulse and squawk 
she tells herself she's listening 
but she's just trying not to talk 


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