it's not that special
what i do
because all i do
is put down
words
that sound cool:
nacreous
adulation
effervescence
narcissistic
imbroglio
divine
haphazard
there's no rhythm
in what i say
all i'm doing
is breaking
lines
and adding
s p a c e s
sometimes
(yes, sometimes)
i put my words
(in these)
in things we call parentheses
and sometimes
(yes, sometimes)
i repeat myself
and call it
emphasis
(emphasis)
on occasion
I might rhyme
but that takes thought
and that takes time
cat, hat, bat
late, hate, date
fat, gnat, mat
mate, fate, eight
sometimes syllables
can help your flow sound better
much like a haiku
if i talk about angst
death, love, and self-hate
(cliche topics)
it's deep
but my favorite
poem i ever
wrote
was about bacon
and god forbid
i capitalize
because that would mean
it didn't look artsy
THIS IS NOT OKAY
Neither is this.
no punctuation
at all
people say my poetry
is beautiful
that I follow all the rules
but I didn't know there
were rules
to follow
really all I do
is put random words
random phrases
in random patterns
and call it art