King Kong Trolls

Hi! This year (2022), I’ve decided to share a poem on my blog and podcast and read it aloud. It’s all a part of my quest to be brave and apparently the things that I’m scared about still include:

My spoken voice
My raw poems.

Thanks for being here with me and cheering me on, and I hope that you can become braver this year, too!

King Kong Trolls



The self-appointed

writer-guru

on Substack

with four-

thousand

devotees

to his biweekly

missives

has decided

there are

no

more

geniuses,

really,

not any

more.



Someone

needs

to tell him

that he

just doesn’t

know



where to look.



The geniuses

aren’t banging

their chests,

King-Kong like

in their glory

despite being

ground dwellers,

telling the world,

“Look at me! Look

at me as I roar

and pontificate.”



They are the

discarded,

dreaming,

creating,

thinking

outside

the main



streams

of

plagiarized

discourse,

unnoticed

beneath

the giant

feet of

oversized

apes

capturing

all the attention

as our culture

dangles

from

their

plump,

hairy

digits.

Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems. These podcasts and more writing tips are at Carrie’s website, carriejonesbooks.blog. There’s also a donation button there. Even a dollar inspires a happy dance in Carrie, so thank you for your support.

The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Eric Van der Westen and the track is called “A Feather” and off the album The Crown Lobster Trilogy.

While Carrie only posts poems weekly here, she has them (in written form) almost every other weekday over on Medium. You should check it out!

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eric-van-der-westen/the-crown-lobster-trilogy-selection

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