paint the day with our cameras

Today

I don't feel like writing

every word comes out
embarrassingly cliched
tired and weary
pushing metaphors into sentences
where there are none.

Let's not make up any stories today
or pretend to know better.

Instead, let's read graffitied walls
filled with advertisements
and turn that into poetry.

Let's just bask
in warm sunlight
or hide from it in the shade.

Let's paint the day
with our cameras.

Because, today
is not a day
for writing.