What's On My Mind You Ask? ? ? Poem by Susan Williams
What's On My Mind You Ask? ? ?
What's on my mind you ask? ? ? ?
Do you really want to know?
Huh, punk, do you?
Oh, ooooops, slipped into my Clint Eastwood persona there,
please excuse me.
What's on my mind is what is causing me
to sit here
emitting
the world's longest,
eeriest,
angst-ridden
SCREAM
there has ever been.
Why, you ask?
Because Book One in my series is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long.
Must trim. Delete. Amputate.
Kill my precious lovely sentences.
Oh, the horror....
.
.
~~~~~~~~~~~~©2018 Susan Williams.
No one knows what's on your mind And perhaps even yourself :) Interesting piece " Oh, the horror....." with 5 dots if counted
editing is indeed a writer's horror- -killing and butchering the output of the mind!
Murder She Wrote! ! ! Death! Wickedness, Mankind on earth! ! ! Why? ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
This was definitely a poem about the frustration involved in writing! Thank you for commenting.
Love your style Susan! Valsa talks about a book! some time even a poem makes you scream! But give it a little time and it will give you eventually what you want! If you have a book out congratulations! I am way behind in my contacts with my PH friends. But glad to visit your page today and know that you are doing well. Happy Halloween!
Thank you so much for these kind words - I; m behind time too. Almost a month
When our editing must murder words it's so sad. Great feeling put into this treasure. Thank you for your comments, Susan.
For me it is the most difficult thing to do in writing a story- -worse than giving birth to children! ! ! ! I enjoy reading your poems and commenting on them! ! !
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I understand. Editing per publisher request is like killing your baby.
Exactly. Those lines were hard to give birth to! ! ! !