She’s ubiquitous
She wouldn’t call herself a genius
but I know she is
A novelist, an actress
She’s on billboards and Broadway
The writer, star, director
of a one-woman play
She’s pale as the sun
as quiet as the moon
and she doesn’t
understand the world
She’s ubiquitous
she wonders what the moral of the story is
she takes her coffee black
she stays out past midnight
sipping Chardonnay and reading
N. T. Wright
She’s ubiquitous
but lately she’s been feeling nervous and listless
She’s sick of putting up with boys
and their pathetic grandeur
and wishes she could meet a guy
who understands her
She’s pale as the sun
as quiet as the moon
and she doesn’t
understand the world
(and sometimes late at night
we take that desert road
out where the stars are street lights
and when we hit the end of that trail
where the dust shines like fog
and the grass hums around us with a million voices
I pull out my flamenco guitar
and she dances).
This is very nice, Boze. I like how it sounds like it could be a song. And I can relate to the idea of going through life wanting something more, something that you can’t quite put your finger on. I also really like the figurative language of the last stanza and the way you wrote about nature. I love night drives and I found myself trying to craft this scene in my head.
Love this! You tell stories really well in your poems. 🙂