Poetry Challenge - Day 5

For today's prompt, write a TMI poem (or too much information poem). As with all prompts, there are a number of ways to come at this one. You can make it about gossip or revealing too much personal information. You could write an information overload poem. Or...well, I'm interested to see what everyone produces.


Hell is murky

So fast going in.
She falls before he hears the report.

(Though, as he remembers, her black hair lifts up
slowly as if in a wind and the mountains are blue
through the window)

The lie must be earned slowly
with the jackknife
and how it sounds
and the bone and how it sounds.
cut away from the slippery bullet
Who would have thought the young girl
would have so much blood in her.

No one wants the facts of war.
No one wants to hear how he got the bullet back
or how it rolled
around
red in his hand.

Look how he rubs his hands.