Love Poem: Kick In the Face
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Written by: Neal Freeland

Kick In the Face

Bought a pad of paper
	Has lines on it
	One hundred pages of paper
	Already stained

Stole a Staedtler marker
	Just a pen really
	Stuffed with ink all waterproof
	Document proof and lightfast

Wrote a poem just like this one
	Used the pen to do it
	Filled exactly one page of one hundred too
	Just to spit this kyfe off

Too tired to do anything else
	Waste time accept it
	Because I don’t give a damn
	Too tired to care

Shredded and burned this pad of paper
	One hundred dreams too ashes
	A million memories smoked
	So what burned my hand too

Carried a flame in my heart
	Left it in those pages
	Hung out to dry
	Like my soul in jet ink

Smeared across my face my hand
	Smudged across my face too
	So what, so who cares
	The cliff base kicked me in the face