No You Cannot Write Poetry
/If you carry initials after your name
You cannot write poetry
You must first figure out everyone’s woke-ness
Achieving perfect symmetry
In a setting of smug confusion
If you are wealthy
Don’t you dare write poetry
If you are poor
You can write it
Because you are powerless
And no one listens
If you rhyme
You can write poetry
You will aggravate everyone
Your words a self-fulfilling prophesy
In harmonious contempt
Write poetry that is amorphous
Incomprehensible and perplexing
The vapid will be transfixed by you
And the scholarly will ignore you
Your attempt to occupy
A gloomy or cheerful preoccupation
In poetry
Are hopeless pathetic
These harmful effects
Of your human creative waste
Are excreted on our environment
By your uncontrollable anal creations
Don’t waste your time
Poetry is not your thing
It is not meant
For your type of person
And what are you doing
Listening to what you think is poetry?
You live in dissonance with poetry
Plans should be made
Subscriptions cancelled
For anthologies and meds
For you cannot write poetry
You do not belong
With those others who do not belong
For they are the poets
And live in the ether
They breathe the air of the misbegotten angels
Needing to fly in the polluted heavens
Speaking the language of the dead and dying
But someone has to do it
And the person who is crucified this time
Cannot be you
Because you cannot write poetry
We have poets for that
By Giulio Magrini
From: United States
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