The Primer (Christina Davis)

Ouch. Someone was hurting while writing this poem. I feel the sting from the last line, the last stanza. It reverberates the whole poem and takes, takes, takes.

"The Primer" - a basic lesson. "the first obscenity was silence" In the beginning.....The variation is the one most cutting. You noticed it more, rationalize it - or try to. Say, you write a poem to rationalize it - to break it down into it's most basic parts - just the words, the phrases, no context. You turn a relationship and the history of all relationships into a simple 101 course.

Favorite line: "He said, Nothing."