Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Cruz Poem

A poem by Cynthia Cruz in her book The Glimmering Room published by Four Way Books press.


Death Star


Angel of cocaine
Overdoses and middle-aged men
Discovered on floors, in bars,
In women's bathrooms-

Beneath a juvenilia of stars.

Quarantined Adderall and Michelob
Chasers.

If no one sees, does that mean
It never happened?

Getting off the medicine
Is like a religious experience,

But that doesn't make it religious,
Does it?

I hope you've collected your lies
In your exquisite
Notebook.




The reason I chose to post this particular poem is because I liked the questions she asks towards the end, and the almost mocking and unsure tone they are portrayed.  Also this poem alludes to a personal experience that I had when I was in the hospital when I was younger, trying to get off the medicine they gave me and writing my “lies” in my notebook, the beginning of my writing “career” as it were. 


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