My Pencil Shakes
by cricketjeff on April 18, 2010. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
My pencil shakes
and the crossword clues
are gibberish
A cup of tea
gets cold
and I pretend
that I don’t care
try to convince myself
that I don’t care
but I do.
Thirty people
in a theatre for three hundred
thirty people who matter to me
will matter
if I can get it right
if I can sell them snake oil
my snake oil
In thirty minutes I have worked on for thirty days.
Time to go
take my turn
try to turn them on
an atheist evangelising
in this land of ultimate belief
A Green selling green systems
DAMN
My pencil shakes
Author notes
But the good news is, they all bought it!
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