Thursday, January 23, 2025

How to Not Write a Sonnet

By Logan Lewis

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Part 1:

I’m not a poet, but I’m not a wannabe: I’m who I wanna be

Chew on your words before you spit them out

What can I say? I don’t need to: I already wrote it out

I’m not a poet…I’m a silly poet

 

Part 2: In a Different Place

There’s a reason I buy so many notebooks

A reason why I only use one brand of pen

Enough about this, we’ll talk about the sunshine

If only having a midlife crisis at 22 was accepted on a resume

Which I lied on: writer's block sucks it makes telling white lies hard

A spoonful of salt helps the truth go down

But the truth is overrated

 

Part 3: Congratulations…I’m Sorry

Writers are thieves: I have a guilty conscience, however

I call it, “stealing from the book thief”

My eyes are opened for the years

What has happened and for whatever is to come

I think my placebos are wearing off

 

 

About the Author


Logan Lewis is a student at Illinois Central College getting his associates degree. After ICC, he is planning on transferring to Illinois State University to get a Creative Writing degree. Recently he has been adding confessional, nostalgic and self-reflective themes in his writing. He wants to spend his life being silly, playing the guitar, and writing songs, poetry and stories. His heroes are God, his parents, Mister Rogers, Andy Warhol, Doug Hopkins and Kurt Cobain. You can usually find him thrifting for cardigans…or screaming songs by The Gin Blossoms in his car.

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