where to begin
forty-eight hours of bed-rotting,
gaseous ideas building up in my temples,
my kingdom for a trepination to relieve to pressure.
mood? cumbersome like some albatross,
sinewy and wet upon my back.
i want a revelation, a donk on my crown
to dislodge all the things unwelcome in my home,
my head, my eyrie, crags filled with the garbarge
that would make a hoarder blush.
i wait, and nothing comes to save me.
but the incessant sound of my own breath,
perhaps my ego could use it to obfuscate itself
and give me a break. these are my thoughts
mollusk parasites on my bark,
beaten endlessly against the sea
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Some great lines and phrases!
“i want a revelation, a donk on my crown”
“Mollusk parasites on my bark,/
beaten endlessly against the sea”
What’s funny about my reading this is I saw there was a comment already, and I already knew “donk on my crown” was going to be part of that comment. A marvelous line in the midst of a superb poem.
The title is perfect. It’s interesting how the speaker’s mind in this poem is portrayed as both a prison and a landfill. I love the line ‘my head, my eyrie, crags filled with the garbage that would make a hoarder blush.’
like the allusion in “my kingdom for a trepination” and the multisyllabic diction