Napkin Poetry

This is napkin Poetry.

The poetry that rebels against the thought of mere paper with lines.

Maybe for said poetry

it is going back to the state of nature-

originality derived from

other sources.

In a way, many have already used

this technique of napkin poetry. Random

symbols of love, or notes scraweled hastily

across a napkin before lunch or dinner.

the feelings of frustration as said napkin disappears,

gets used, or falls apart; forgotten in some dark hole

in a piece of clothing, only to be found again later in the lint catch

of a dryer. Mush.

In the era of PDA’s, phones and other devices with  note-taking ablity,

napkin literature has fallen by the way side. No longer are napkins to

be subjected by a pen! Maybe this is a good thing.

Maybe it isn’t. Whose to know?

It surely is a dying art from the perspective of a napkin.

BUT! Even if it –were- dying, it

can also be a sacred rite between the writer,

his writing and the napkin.

A napkin may not be the same as paper,

with its thickness and lack of lines, but! A napkin

has its own texture as well, making up for

its lack of utility. Maybe the

art of napkin writing will comeback,

perhaps it shan’t. But, never-the-less,

Napkin writing isn’t dead,

This is Napkin Poetry.