Draft No. 487

Sarah Daly

My words and phrases

are stretched to breaking:

they are hollow, sterile

and over-processed.

 

Tentative repairs

are weaved by

strong voices

who are temporal, transitory,

yet solid, sustaining.

 

They obliterate my thoughts,

and mold my message

into a grotesque parody

of itself.

 

This shiny new thing

is too long and flashy

for the world

which will cruelly reject it.