I hate poetry...

I hate poetry
Even more than I hate poets
If I wrote things like
“My life is swirling in a black abyss of apathy”
I would get responses like
“That is the most wonderful line I have ever had the
pleasure of reading”
And to that I would laugh
And laugh
And laugh some more
What I write isn’t poetry I was told
It’s prose with a few more end stops
I think it’s because my musings actually make some sense
When I think of modern cyber poets
I see them as very young
(23 and under)
Or middle age suburban housewives pounding out this
cookie in the Midwest Vancouver teeth shit that I
suffer though looking for something decent to read
(I think this is because they are looking for
something to give their life some meaning)
Cyber poets I think are worse than people who sit in
Star Bucks scribbling away in some tattered
composition book about how their dog died when they were 10
I have no respect for cyber poets
None at all
Especially those who find some comfort behind their
screen tearing at what other people write saying
something has promise when they know it’s good
It’s just not what they wrote or what one of their ego
stroking message board flunkies wrote
And to that I say fuck them
And fuck their stupid ideas about what poetry should be
I have always thought that any form of expression was
a personal form
The same way that I believe that a person’s religion
and what they believe in is their own personal
thing and no one should try to influence them in
one way or another
Am I a cyber poet you ask?
According to what I was told, I am not a poet
And I am not middle aged
And I hate coffee
And I never really cared when my dog died
So remember
Be critical, because you never know
When someone might look at what you wrote and think
“What the fuck is this?”

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