Today, I hate poetry

Does this post even need an introduction? Sometimes ya got it; sometimes ya don’t!

Today, I hate poetry

Writing poems is like reading a book

in braille—

I know where to place my fingertips,

but I still can’t find the words.

I have so much to say,

and yet my sharpened No. 2

refuses to move.

Why am I so hard on myself?

Why must I overthink every

word

phrase

line

in a genre whose very existence defies all rules

and yet has so many!

Why

must I always be a damn perfectionist?

 

*Image by Daniel Roberts from Pixabay.

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