When You've Had Enough Of The Blah Blah Blah Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

when you've had enough of the blah blah blah
I pray they don't make you sit in the corner;
stay after school-

stay, where they've frozen you outside:
in the swing-a-statue play yards
while they go back inside.

how chill were the early Aprils then,
the see through greens.
and you can see through

the blah blah blah,
in these later scenes

you live where real words live;
trembling, on the underside
of leaves.

mary angela douglas 19 november 2015