A poem in an obscure magazine Options

[mipadi]

A bunch of literary "rebels" at the college I previously attended (William & Mary, for those who must know) put out an "underground" literary magazine of sorts. It's very interesting, to say the least. Today, I picked up an issue that included the following poem, which I thought was simply brilliant in its simplicity and surprise. It's written by "kt bentley" (no idea if the all-lowercase letters are part of the design, or a nod towards, e.g., e.e. cummings). Here's the poem, in its entirety:


one day I wondered
If I could go the whole day
Without saying anything.
I could be silent in classes,
Just take notes and stare at slides-
Who would notice?
I could just walk from class to class,
Place to place, wherever the hell I had to go-
No one would notice.
I could be silent for a day,
My vocal chords would never vibrate,
Or tingle or stretch or whatever they do
And for a day I would be completely invisible.
Could I do it? I wondered.
I thought I could.
Then I remembered-
I could never do that.
I'm too fucking awesome.

[NoSex]

literary "rebels" is right.
"underground," yeah.
they need to read some burroughs & shut the f*ck up; a whole day of silence wouldn't be quite enough to detox me from their "awesomeness."

[mipadi]

literary "rebels" is right.
"underground," yeah.
they need to read some burroughs & shut the f*ck up; a whole day of silence wouldn't be quite enough to detox me from their "awesomeness."

Tell me, if the writers of the magazine were gratuitously covered in fake blood when they wrote their pieces, would you feel differently?

[NoSex]

Tell me, if the writers of the magazine were gratuitously covered in fake blood when they wrote their pieces, would you feel differently?

bad writing is bad writing is, etc.