Erasure by The Real Cie
Erasure
Move Like Jagger
hand in my heart
Rip it out
spill blood
lost my head
wanted to put you in my pocket
wanted to hug you
So I could see the light turn on in your eyes once again
you always looked a little sad
I could soothe your sorrow
Cuddle away your blues
Fucking Midnight Confession style thoughts
About a married man
I want to do bad things with you
What the fuck
Is wrong with the Universe?
you don't create something so beautiful
Just to utterly destroy it
my thoughts are
nowhere near close to as wrong
As what's been done to you
Life is pain
Hope is folly
Confession is good for the tabloids
Some things try to be strong
Although they're actually fragile
want to put you in my pocket
And keep you safe
For Cie
With love from Aurora
Notes:
The term "erasure" reminded me of the picture that Cie created. I thought that I would take something that Cie wrote and try to condense it down to the bare bones.
The original poem, which I absolutely love, can be found here.
The Prompt:
Our prompt for today (optional, as always) is an old favorite – the erasure! This involves taking a pre-existing text and blacking out or erasing words, while leaving the placement of the remaining words intact. I’ve been working on an erasure project that involves an old guide to rose-growing. Here’s an example of an original page, side-by-side with my “erased” page:
One easy way to get started is just to photocopy a page from a book or magazine, and black out words. Or you can copy a text into Microsoft Word, and turn the words you don’t want white. Erasures can feel almost like a game – carving new poems out of old texts like carving statues from blocks of marble — and so they take some of the anxiety out of writing. They can also lead to surprising new ideas, as the words of the original text are given new contexts.
Happy writing!
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