can't do any better...

[whitereflection]

spat

I wanted to write a poem today
Again.
But when I reached for words, they were gone
When I closed my eyes
and listened to the quiet dark in my head
the words still weren't there
(Again.)
--Save for the bits and fragments and false starts
already formed into crumpled wads of paper for the trash
before even being born.
*
I wonder if the words are pissed at me
if they stormed off,
slammed the door and locked it,
leaving me to sleep stiff and cold
on the couch.