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
I can understand the tension and agony you experience prior to the publication of a book! All creative artists pass through such 'labour pain'! There is so much of rewriting, editing and curtailing to be done....! Thinking of the pain involved, one can only scream as a mother in labour screams. But once the baby is out, you'll really marvel over it! A half hilarious and half serious write! A sure 10
do! ! ! Thank you for the 10 as well. I need encouragement at this time! ! !
Thank you, Valsa. I knew I could depend on you to understand! ! ! ! You always
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I understand. Editing per publisher request is like killing your baby.