i hate bad poetry

oh dear god
(if one exists, natch)
why do people
have to write
such crappy poetry?

it makes me
want to stab my eyes out
with a thousand letter openers
red blood pouring out
less painful

it makes me
want to go back in time
just so i can put a note on my monitor
and remind myself to
never read it

it makes me
want to rip out my short term memory
just to forget...
just to forget

just because you're angsty and sad
and pained and suicidal
doesn't mean you need to write a (really)
shitty poem about it

your boyfriend dumped
and beat you and your cousin's sister's aunt's maid
molested you
so what do you do?
you write to purge like thick mucousy vomit to spew
your mindless drivel
then naturally you upload it to the interweb too
so everyone can weep for you!

(instead of going for real professional help,
that would be too easy,
nobody understands YOU anyway because nobody's
ever ever felt the way you do!)

CLICK!

you ignore meter
to make it more melo
dram
at
ic

especially one that sort of rhymes
with poor tempo, you do those all the time

you make me
want to weep real tears
and cut the shape of a duck in my arm
to feel the pain of you
to feel

you make me
want to burn cigarettes
into my skin so i can try to really
remember what R-E-A-L
poetry is

you know, good poetry
oh...
the pain of bad poetry.
the pain.
the.

i hate bad poetry