Name: Bathtub Poetry
Duration: P00H00M53S
Description: A poem about lack of inspiration while bathing.

Bathtub Poetry

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil by Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet

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A poem about lack of inspiration while bathing.

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I am reduced
to writing bathtub poetry;
hoping my leopard print shower curtain
will shock me into inspiration,
but words do not
flow
like the water from my tap;
drawn three times now
to reheat this cauldron
I stew myself in,
hoping
I will eventually
cook
up
something.
I make nothing but white-sauce today:
a solid base
that is wanton
for flavor.
Spanish guitar
emanates from my stereo,
intended to be my muse for the moment,
but it dances away,
too quickly,
the phrases
that try to step stiflingly
out of my head.
Exhausted
I pull the plug on this torture session
in which I’ve boiled my brain
in the vain hope
of producing
one
fluid
ounce
of bathtub poetry.

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from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil, released November 27, 2021
Written and Read by: Erin J. Bauman, the Panoptical Poet

Recorded and Mastered by: Steve Marc/SMG Endeavors

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Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet Castlegar, British Columbia

The Panoptical Poet is an environmental and social justice word warrior who ex-amines the many varying viewpoints of our current global reality.

Each poem Erin writes is an attempt at bringing to light the undervalued voices that are being silenced in the landscape of our collective conversations.

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