First time submitter Donald Teuma-Castelletti is a second-year Journalism student at Ottawa U. He sent us a very ernest poem he wrote while a little bit drunk (“Write drunk, edit sober” anybody?) and for something written while under the influence, we’re definitely fans of how well it turned out! Lovely.
Read below:
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Editing Sober
“Write drunk”
They say he said
An inspiration
Spiraling aspiration
And so the bottles
Lay open and empty
In a clinking pile
Of my motivation
With everyone trying so hard
Who do you want to outdo?
An inspiration
Spiraling aspiration
Inside a glass of cheap wine
Acidic Welches
With a dizzying afterthought
There goes my fear of writing
Or of appearing a fool
Then there’s the flash
As a message comes up
About absolutely nothing
To which I reply absolutely nothing
In outgoing terms, of course
Then there’s a bang
As the drums pop
And I find my new distraction
