When you tell people you like poetry,
they start listing off all these poets, all the ones they know,
and you, if you're like me, just look utterly disinterested,
because me,
I do not need a name to a work,
I do not need to be aware of what this poet is and stands for,
I just need to feel it, deep inside my brain, pounding my skull
breaking into my rib cage and peeling my heart out
ripping me apart.
Thats what poetry is to me.