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Poetry is a Scam Created by the Government

May 23, 2019
By Anonymous

Poetry is a scam.

Every line can’t rhyme.

I just don’t have the ham

Or the goddamn time.


I cannot stress enough

Poetry is a facade.

This poem might be rough,

Proving poetry is flawed.


Maybe rhyming’s fine,

But you can’t expect much more.

Because when you write a line,

It’s basically doing a chore.


I’d write meaningful shit

But I’d just be overdramatic

Instead I guess this is it

It’ll probably end up in your attic.


Whitman’s poems bored me, I fear

Thoreau was over the top.

The garbage by William Shakespeare,

Thine poetry thou should stop.


Oh captain, my captain?

What the hell is that?

This poetry I am entrapped in

I regard as language’s doormat.


In summary I’d like to say

Without a shadow of a doubt

Poetry is my ashtray

Where I put my metaphorical cigarettes out.

 

This poem is for my fellow peers

Who hate on poetry too

Because in just a couple years

I’ll have an anti-poetry barbecue.

 

p.s.

This poem is my ode

To words not yet said.

Their utterance builds a road

To whatever lies ahead.


Ironic, isn’t it?

Poetry and I?

Looks like I’m a hypocrite

Poetry, my battlecry.  



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REEEEEEE said...
on May. 29 2019 at 5:19 pm
REEEEEEE, Shelton, Washington
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OOGA BOOGA IMA EAT UR POOP