The Writers Part I & Part II

by Lydia Daffenberg

Part I: Down The Town

The writers
The writers
Ah, where are the writers?

Hanging in bars and pulling all-nighters

Sick to death of life
And scared to hell of Death

They're all down the town,
The writers,
Hanging in bars and pulling legs off spiders--
Tugging on their lungs for another breath

The writers

Bitter as Hell and
Hellbent on death

The writers

Part II: Swirling Words in a Tumbler

They emerge,
The writers

Triumphant and greensea new--
Fresh amidst their overbearing reality

The writers emerge with Wisdom--
Perhaps found at the bottom of a tumbler--
But nonetheless

"Wise beyond years,"
The words fumble into place nearly declaring so

The writers

Forming life into flow, tempo and rhyme--finding time with the beat
Reflecting the soul in inked proposal

The writers