How to Write a Poem, by a Fifteen-Year-Old Alcoholic
Define alcoholism: habitual intoxication.
Define habitual: commonly used or practiced.
Define Writing: the act of creating written works.
Deine words: weaving and combining the 26 letters of the alphabet to create;
Venom,
Power,
Lust,
Loss,
Hatred,
Content,
and love.
Define intoxication: a wild excitement;
rapture.
Writing a poem is not a complex act.
Simply cut your wrist and bleed your words into your pen.
Draw oceans with the depths of your ancient tool.
Step 1: Manipulation
Wrap your knife around a pen
And produce the danger,
That erects the images and
Voices in one’s vision.
Step 2: Sing
These words breathe like fresh wounds,
Pour your salt,
Sink them in vemon,
And let them sing their enticing words.
Step 3: Acceptance
You’re not insane,
But not completely sane,
For it is madness that projects this sanity,
being sober and drunk are two pleasure
One is allowed to feel,
For this pen works like a bottle of vodka
And I fall
like its sinner.
Step 4: Drink
Drown in this addiction,
Allow it to claw away the flesh
from your bones and expose
the hunger from your eyes.
Step 5: Die
These words resurrect
the point of your dagger,
So dance on the razer’s edge.
Allow the visions
And expect for the bleed,
Listen for the ring of song.
Await with prayer.
Dear sinner,
This is your work,
This is your drug,
This will be your
gift.
Drink this glass
And pour words into this page.