Ask Yourself Directions

Whether well

Plumbed Prose

Babble

or

both,

writing is a journey,

a living sketch,

a road map

depicting a series

of →starts→ and .stops.

Winchells donut holes

twists and turns

The amazing ball of twine

switchbacks and stumbles

I C U!

toward the light switch.

Unlike a sketch,

–and in the Dark–

your audience can’t see

the creases in the pieces

you’ve fit together & left behind

cntrl + alt + delete’s changed that forever

and well, White Out’s been around for a while, too.

Hinting at those erased bits–

those shamey throwaways

that shatter a mosaic of self image

elbow-elbow

that keyboard blueprints smooth

nudge-nudge

nasty as pop-up↑pimples

smudge-smudge

spell-checking & tongue-clucking & exploding with homogenization through the White, all write…

denying the Amazing Technicolor Pothole Adventure

erase marks define.

©Karen Robiscoe