Poetry 101

As I said, I'm an aspiring writer, but that's a bit misleading...I'm actually a poet. But I don't like to tell people that, because they immediately think of some flowery "how do I love thee" shit, and that's not me. I'm more of a realist when it comes to poetry. Somebody famous once said the difference between prose and poetry is the difference between saying 'put the cat out', and 'out cat'. See? No flowery romanticism there. So now I leave you with a poem I composed in my impressionable adolescent high school years...enjoy.

What does it mean to be a poet?

Writing down words to let everyone know it?

I think a person has way too much time

to sit around thinking of words that will rhyme.

And what do you call a poem that doesn't?

Bad.