Personification-November 9, 2007

Isn’t it funny

that what I want you to be,

a great glorified specter,

has no reverence for my sticky black soul

and you can’t take your eyes off it.

I love you still,

your eagerness hungrily mouthing my outstretched palms

like an overzealous puppy.

{Journal: In a paragraph or a poem, personify an abstraction or inanimate object. Though I had constructed the personification simile earlier (see the October 2, 2007 entry), I am prided by my description of the audience’s eagerness–I feel like I fully embodied the behavior in a young dog.}

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