Adventures in NaPoWriMo 13/30

This poem is proof that if you are getting an idea as you are falling asleep, you should try to scribble it down or give up on it completely. Otherwise, you inflict this kind of...bla....on your dedicated (6?) readers.

and maybe i don’t thank you enough

for the ways you helped me turn out right

spend too much energy

counting down the ways you got it wrong

but i still laugh like you

repeat my stories

hold the room with an ice cold stare

i got a thing for a jazz

a bigger thing for musicians

i lean into the microphone to get a point across

step back a little when i need the crowd to think

and there is always a crowd

even if it’s just your voice in my head on repeat

i aim to please

for a daddy’s girl who’s more disappointment

than she knows what to do with

it gets hard to carve a space for the leftover love to go

but this i do

and do well

because your baby has learned to be the best

in spite of

to wear your name on my chest

and i am grateful for that

in small ways

that normally go without mention