I chewed on a pencil for tea
an unpleasant splinter of graphite 2B,
my head machine purrs, but cogs do not whir
nothing stirs,
no word flowers grow,
I need some more seeds,
are they herbs are they verbs or irritating weeds
I don't know,
how this could be so,
I will make me a garden for rhymes to bloom,
poems only flower if you give them some room