Chrysalis

[billy]

Hi Lb thanks for the first poem

they say
put the pen down i think if you swapped L1 and two about, you'd have a stronger opening
euthanize it.
Never wrote right i like the sounds of wrote and right playing off each other
anyhow, they say
it dries up
or spills
is unpredictable
and unreliable.
Ain't worth its weight
in chewed up plastic
they say.
Sure
I'll admit
she's been funny
near troublesome.
Stays up late, drunken, unintelligible.
Stays in bed, hardly awakens for work
and only dots i's when it's convenient.
But you could make the but pop buy putting a line space above and below it.
I am missing matches
and sandpaper
hear scratching
and smell sulfur.
If I didn't know no better
I would think she's becoming
a zipgun. i enjoyed the ending a lot.

would the lines connected to they say add something more if they were italicised or placed in quotes? the lead up to the end was great. it was a fun poem about an inanimate object that was brought to life through it's user. (it is called anthropomorphism?) if i was that pen getting all the blame i'd turn myself into a zipgun as well.

thanks for the read