The following is poem Number 2 of 2009′s NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days during the month of April. The title comes from the original prompt, “Edit This”.

EDIT THIS

My first job was filled with the same long faces
you see driving who don’t know you’re watching,
the ones with eyes fogged and lost
in some monolog, ears locked into a blur
of radio words and the poor face itself far away
from its thoughts, a blank stair stuck on the road
just off the bumper.

There was one guy who liked to say genetic fate
had it out for him, which somehow made
his parents culpable for the mess.
As best I could tell, he wanted to revision
his conception, said the stars misaligned that night,
assuming as we all do he was made in the dark.

“And here I am,” he’d sigh, “a gray blot
in the void.” When I asked what any of us could do
he didn’t have a clue, figured
there might be a pen out there to edit this or that
but was probably busy with bigger things.

Tags: a poem a day, NaPoWriMo 2009, National Poetry Month

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