Refrains A-D

REFRAINS A-D

(a)
My mind is sharp
Like a knife
It spills the blood
Of imagination
And sends it coursing
To every corner of my brain

(b)
Get the words down quickly on the page
Before they all dry up
And my pen is merely

Hovering

Above the blank page that mocks

(c)
Inimitably huge world
What place have I here?
If you want me,
Why intimidate me so?
And humiliate?
And place the stars so high?

(d)
Time is slipping through my fingers.
If I do not make a record of my existence it will not even stain
my
Fingertips
Like the reminder of too many cigarettes
The night before.