Tuesday, August 16, 2005

The wait

seconds turned to minutes
minutes to hours
hours to days
days to weeks
weeks to months
months to years
years to half a lifetime
half a lifetime to death
his obit read: unpublished

An exercise in 'Pain': the idea put forward by 'world famous' poet maya is to write a poem about 'pain' without using the word pain or any words like ouch! (ouch!)