The Story
You tell yourself
You walk around telling
Yourself
It’s your history
The past
The future
You telling yourself
The story dancing around
In your skull
The stuff people said to
You
The movies you
Watched
Television shows
Music from radios
Sounds.
The stories changing
For me
Every few years.
Then me believing in a story
the story moves on
What story of the page is next?
it keeps turning,
i spill hot coffee on it, or soda
or water
the story can be be bland
or bold and spicy
or usually having highs and lows
and flatlands like Kansas
no hills at all
and sometimes you just want
the moment to unfold without
a story
and forget
next.
©2020 Damion Hamilton All rights reserved.
Damion Hamilton is from St. Louis MO. His poems have appeared in Chiron Review, Poesy Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee, Red Fez, The Camel Saloon and many others. He writes poetry, stories and novels. He has written several books.