Up Late

Written October 2025

Blackout poetry…
Blackout poetry is a creative process that uses an existing body of text from a magazine or book. Guiding your eye over the text, begin to select words that you feel drawn to. Allowing your poem to begin taking form by underlining, circling, crossing out, or highlighting the different words.

since it comes
blowing up. There’s not much chance
so we have
Actually, I’m starting to really
like that.
We
keep up
by drinking which I can’t say I like.

we’'ll be
lucky
so at least we’ll have
them.

I like best:
they
just aren’t the same.

now
I expect I’ll be
around
their fair share.

You heard some stories about
cleaning out
far away from where they lived. That’s
why we can only
— in our case,

You can’t always trust