The Price of a Poem

what’s the price of a poem in cash, blood, sweat and tears what experience suffered how many months and years what’s it worth to you and will you be touched, pleased will it explain, elucidate will all your fears be eased and did you see it coming and appreciate it’s being I think I wrote it for you you are seeing what you’re seeing if everything I ever wrote, thought, memorised came flooding back to haunt I would be traumatised and the pain that brings the poem, screaming tricks me into thinking I was only ever dreaming so, what’s the price of a poem a collection of words skewed up, down, all over the place studied, read, discarded, viewed it’s not the sentiment you leave when you close the book that moment came, happened, went and you had to look poems? ten a penny a sad f*cker scribbling giving his best, his darkest and left dribbling psst, want to buy a poem? it’s price is negotiable it won’t change your world and is not guaranteed reliable. 18.1.2020 11:13am