No One Wants To Admit

i! 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!

No one wants to admit that the moment they are home alone,

They start singing show tunes or childhood hits,

Pretending the crowds are adoring as they slide in socks across a hard wood floor

That isn’t actually a stage and there is no TikTok video being made.

Only we, random humans with our ridiculous bodies,

All gangling and bulbous, opposable thumbs a highlight

Want to be famous in secret—so many dreams sung off-key

Into the space of the kitchen, the only audience the dogs

Since the cats wisely look away.

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 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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