Name: I Came Here to Write Poetry
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Description: A poem about lacking inspiration in a coffee house.

I Came Here to Write Poetry

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

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A poem about lacking inspiration in a coffee house.

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I came here to write poetry,
but the paintings are flat,
and the coffee is cold.
Jazz music does not
drip
from the speakers
to flow into waves
of inspiration.
Instead rock music
assaults
my senses
like a bad smell
in a small room,
or too much neon
in one outfit.

Where is the elusive, eclectic coffee bar,
where artists
are more abundant than coffee;
where alternative describes the music
and the atmosphere?
I need a beret.
I need a cigarette,
and a sleek cigarette
holder.
I need a flash of the right color;
a whisper of the right word.
I need a man
with the body of a Greek Adonis
to be my masculine muse,
and by God, I need a moment of inspiration!
I came to write poetry,
but I can see
that is not going to happen
here.

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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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