05-24-2016, 09:46 AM
Name Game
1
Your name
staked in your brain
like tracks of a railroad train.
If you had a different name,
would you be the same?
Imagine the traveling pain
from thousands of rattling trains
hammered across your brain
cuffing out rhythms,
This is your name!
This is your name!
This is your name!
Do names limit lives
as tracks limit destinations?
Were I a Joe,
would I be a plumber?
Were I a Bob,
would I be a builder?
I’ve yet to know Cletus the theorist.
2
Imagine naming yourself.
Slower.
Imagine naming
your
self
without the polluted distraction
of the long traveled tracks
your name has rattled along.
Now, imagine
your
self
unnamed because
these pseudonyms won’t last.
Thread closed. Current thread in Mild Critique:
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-18851.html
1
Your name
staked in your brain
like tracks of a railroad train.
If you had a different name,
would you be the same?
Imagine the traveling pain
from thousands of rattling trains
hammered across your brain
cuffing out rhythms,
This is your name!
This is your name!
This is your name!
Do names limit lives
as tracks limit destinations?
Were I a Joe,
would I be a plumber?
Were I a Bob,
would I be a builder?
I’ve yet to know Cletus the theorist.
2
Imagine naming yourself.
Slower.
Imagine naming
your
self
without the polluted distraction
of the long traveled tracks
your name has rattled along.
Now, imagine
your
self
unnamed because
these pseudonyms won’t last.
Thread closed. Current thread in Mild Critique:
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-18851.html