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Don't Call it Anything



So you write something and call it a poem.

Because its is free verse it could also be mistaken for a shopping list,
or a set of instructions for assembling a bookshelf, but you call it
a poem!

Free verse means 
a thousand rules can be ignored - but only at your extreme peril.

This kind of writing 
is like riding a peddle bike with no handlebars or brakes,
one word out of place and the whole thing 
ends up in a ditch, 
bent wheels slowly spinning.

Eventually you learn 
by the daily application of ignorance and error, 
to ride a poem
as if it were a one wheeled circus bike,

but you can’t do that for long either,
pretty soon a line will trip you up,

then instead of a poem you are an accident
happening in slow motion right there on the page.

Unless you want to be metaphorically crucified 
or publicly burnt at a stake
for God’s sake don’t call it a poem,

Just say it’s this thing you do -

its thoughts squiggling around on a laptop screen
like worms surfacing after a heavy rain,

for you just know someone is bound to tell you 
that it’s just a bunch of deconstructed word-worms,

but that’s okay
you already said that, 
so now you can look smart and kind of a deep thinker,

and no
it was never ever meant to be a poem – never,

but of course you will still get mad 
if anyone agrees with you.

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