Erin B. - Blackout Poetry Notes

A Death Americanized

Barren
and weary of money -
a death Americanized.
How weary the world was.

She is
fire and water.
For the first time,
she is vivid,
free, and full of life,
and shall go on living
so complete.

You bewitched me.
You're making my heart
pound freely,
about to explode.

I think you can
drive anybody mad.
I had a weary time
in the storm of you.

You make me
happy enough,
somehow.

Love
with a promise
and be
wild with joy.

Live your life
whole and organic,
you've got to be
a natural
among other things
so decidedly bourgeois.

I rather think
there is
something special
about you.

I am
more alive
than ever before,
ready to hope
with no fear or pain.

She tells herself,
it is enough.
It's all right.
At home, she is herself,
she is herself.