06-24-2018, 08:54 PM
There is no comb in your kit
of critical tools, evidently.
No perfectly imperfect.
Devoid of intent,
you are
sincerity in thick brown hair
and wrinkled shift,
scribbled thoughts
and cocktail napkin knit.
I am pressed cotton greenbacks
and pintucks and balanced
sheets, stilettos. I am
lost.
Revision 1
There is no comb in your kit
of critical tools. There is
no perfectly imperfect.
Devoid of intent,
you are
sincerity in thick brown
tress and wrinkled shift.
Robed in scribbled thought
and cocktail napkin knit.
Original
The comb is not
a critical tool in your kit,
evidently.
I cannot characterize you
as trying not to try.
Deficient of intent,
you are
sincerity in thick brown
tress and wrinkled knit,
as though, complete
with scribbled thought,
you pulled a napkin
out of pocket
and stretched it overhead
to wear.
of critical tools, evidently.
No perfectly imperfect.
Devoid of intent,
you are
sincerity in thick brown hair
and wrinkled shift,
scribbled thoughts
and cocktail napkin knit.
I am pressed cotton greenbacks
and pintucks and balanced
sheets, stilettos. I am
lost.
Revision 1
There is no comb in your kit
of critical tools. There is
no perfectly imperfect.
Devoid of intent,
you are
sincerity in thick brown
tress and wrinkled shift.
Robed in scribbled thought
and cocktail napkin knit.
Original
The comb is not
a critical tool in your kit,
evidently.
I cannot characterize you
as trying not to try.
Deficient of intent,
you are
sincerity in thick brown
tress and wrinkled knit,
as though, complete
with scribbled thought,
you pulled a napkin
out of pocket
and stretched it overhead
to wear.

