I Don'T Want To Write a Poem
I don’t want to write a poem,
there’s nothing in the tank,
no great thought or inspiration
that will inspire thanks.
I don’t want to write a poem,
just let me watch youtube,
and leave the entertaining to
far more qualified dudes.
I don’t want to write a poem,
so Mind, leave me alone,
stop saying, ‘memento mori,’
that my time is half gone.
I don’t want to write a poem,
this damn writer’s impulse
will never just shut up and sleep,
like it does for most folk.
I don’t want to write a poem,
just let my brain shut off,
don’t make me feel that doing so
is precious moments lost.
I don’t want to write a poem,
and think of life or death,
or patterns, beats, and damned quatrains,
for God’s sake let me rest!
I don’t want to write a poem,
but I don’t have a say,
since even when I try not to
I write one anyway.
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