Soapbox Poet

The Migraine Library (a poem)

Sometimes my head weighs so heavy

it could be a bookend, holding up stories

that fight against time, imploring tedious

sentences to squeeze out and ooze all over.

I wonder what souvenirs would fall victim

and what memories would stand up straight?

Would the sheer parallelism of each vertical

pamphlet ache at the pressure?

Sometimes my head weighs so heavy,

I want to tumble my library down

and check out a new set of books.

I’ll try and read them again tomorrow.