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Still working on that sonnet from yesterday...
Here's my current draft. I've put particular words and phrases I'm waffling about changing inside parentheses:
I learned to tell a story at age two.
At least, I learned the pacing of suspense
(Propped up between my parents on the couch
With season one of “Star Trek” on T.V.).
Unable, as I was, to run away,
I'd listen for the music's minor shift,
Stick fingers in my ears and close my eyes,
And wait until the scary moment passed.
I never feared the aliens as much
As all the angry shouts and lasers' flash (whine) (screech)
That always happened – every episode –
As soon as any “monster” came on-screen.
Could it be I understood (have been I knew), that young (back then):
My difference, too, was something that they feared? (not allowed?)
I learned to tell a story at age two.
At least, I learned the pacing of suspense
(Propped up between my parents on the couch
With season one of “Star Trek” on T.V.).
Unable, as I was, to run away,
I'd listen for the music's minor shift,
Stick fingers in my ears and close my eyes,
And wait until the scary moment passed.
I never feared the aliens as much
As all the angry shouts and lasers' flash (whine) (screech)
That always happened – every episode –
As soon as any “monster” came on-screen.
Could it be I understood (have been I knew), that young (back then):
My difference, too, was something that they feared? (not allowed?)