Rough Draft No. 2

Rough Draft No. 2
Current mood: relaxed

Here's my 2nd assignment from my writing workshop this week...this time we had to answer a series of questions based on why/ how we write...how we became writers, what fuels us to write...here's my rough draft that incorporated some of my fellow workshop people's comments/ suggestions...I wanna explore it more....it's longer but I'll put the 2nd part up later til I rework it more b/c they thought that it just wasn't one poem but actually two...I totally will rewrite this one but here goes:

Enough is enough – Poetic Manifesto

Enough is enough
Done with staring at e-mails & following-up on phone calls
only to leave voice mails

Miscommunications that is an appropriate department title
change for the work that’s been done all day

Bad enough
that we are all pretty
fed-up, spoon fed
by Papa FCC
& Mama local evening news

That’s the point
when one has had enough of the day
packed bag
picked up

take the rush hour 38 Express
down wide-eyed Geary Street

Watch the busy work
of fruit stand dealers & Russian merchants
so they can distract you

Craving sanctuary at home
Writing brings up nostalgia of being 4 years old
scribbling on a legal pad

Creating one’s own hieroglyphics
with enough stories to fill
past the margins of the smudged lines
of the paper

Adding images hand drawn
Captions too to clarify

To tell a story
to anyone who would listen
Be it Lola or little brother

Rambling on & on scribbling is
interrupted by
the “Is this good enough?”

“Who cares? Just write.”
uncle’s voice
chimes in,
a high school
teacher for
30 years

Yet here comes
the “Is this trash?”

“Practice, do you hear me?”
“Just write.”
Uncle’s voice in his
woven
Waray, Tagalog,
Taglish, English
persistent tone

Here is a
refugee’s child
finding refuge
in the isle
of words

Currently watching: Saturday Night Live - Best of Jimmy Fallon Release date: By 25 January, 2005