week of jun 3rd. prompt: think about undercurrents as you write– movements and energies that flow beneath surfaces. what surfaces do they lay beneath? is it an undertone in skin or a song, a literal current, a political movement?

written on 8-9/06/2024.

unleash the thought processermmm i was sad when i wrote this so like. tee hee. i edited it a bit while i was typing it up so yeah. are these two characters or am i just talking to myself? who knows!!
so how does this fit with the prompt? the movement beneath the surface is basically my sadness, how it's always kinda there. what a happy poem this is wowww. idk i wasnt really thinking about it but yeah.


a real thing is my bedcover.
too hot with it too cold without, annoyed by the texture and unsafe if i throw it on the floor.
but it's real.
my pillow, pillows are real too.
there are only so many times you can turn it over before both sides stay warm, but bin it and i'll have neck pain for a week.
i can knock on the door, so that's real as well.
open the door and i'm vulnerable, close it and i'm trapped.
all real things in my room.
the realest am i.
yeah. it is, i am, a sad sort of poem.
the child wishing to feel something, the teenager wishing it would stop.
can't bin myself, can i?
can't you?
no.
no.