So I'm currently taking a creative writing class and for an assignment that's due tomorrow morning, my professor asked me to: 1. Write a poem filled exclusively with cliches, and then 2. Replace every line so there's nothing left that's cliche.
He's kind of nuts, but I think it makes him a great professor. He brings a certain manic energy to the class that generates some really great stuff. I don't have anywhere else to put it, so here's that poem I came up with: (Doesn't have a title yet, feel free to suggest one if that's your M.O.)
Her skin is cratered like the moon
Pockmarked with pockets of pus
The blood in her neck warm like the sun
Fission in the hot space between us
Her eyes droop under loose skin
And crease with laughter behind my door
I love nothing more in this world than her song,
The dance of clawtips clacking across floor
Her touch is hesitant, yet greedy
She refuses to take me as hers
Afraid she’ll splinter my soft neck
And drag me by spine out to the hearse
I kneel to her, how I love her
I prove it by pulling badger’s teeth
Her rough tongue licks my hands
It tells me: I am complete
I am not the monster she’s made me,
I am the man I always was.
She breaks down my walls into pulverized pieces
And together, we sweep up the dust.
Could use some edits and I'm sure I'll hate it in the morning, but I like it for now :) I'll probably be posting more writing here, I think it'd be cool to have a blog... still get to publish my work somewhere online that isn't ao3 so I can put out my non-fandom-related stuff. Cool
I take edits, constructive criticism, dirty jokes, whatever kinda feedback. really not picky
Thanks for reading this far I guess. Good night? lol
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