Shari's Telling Stories » out of ink poem http://slstellingstories.com A little poetry, a little prose, from Shari Lynne Smothers Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:07:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Pen Bites the Dust http://slstellingstories.com/2009/04/another-pen-bites-the-dust/ http://slstellingstories.com/2009/04/another-pen-bites-the-dust/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:32:49 +0000 Shari Smothers http://slstellingstories.com/?p=363

I’ve emptied out a pen
yet again in the middle
of what I was writing.

It doesn’t mean that I’m
barreling through ink,
having filled longhand
three hundred pages of manuscript.

I like to tell myself, though
it’s because I’m writing
my hands off productively,

thinking, Girl! You’re
doing the damn thing!
No stopping you once you get a new pen.

The truth is it happens too
just the same way
in the middle of writing my grocery list.

©2009 by Shari Lynne Smothers

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