- Flux Magazine
"A poem about not being able to write poems anymore" by Amanda Pape
I’m not sure why all the words are gone
Along with all the flowery,
long-winded metaphors
Into the abyss of algebra formulas
Moms requests to defrost the chicken
and all the times
The Nuclear Bomb in my head
gave those in proximity radiation burns
Words once flowed
bouncing off the rhythm of
My mother’s womb
The echo of her canyon heart
Reverberating in my mind
Now split into the tributaries,
bursting capillaries
of chaotic thought
What
A goddamn
Mess
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