Dear Hello Poetry You like my poems! This is weird. What do I have to show for all those years scribbling on a tiny notepad? In my pocket: $1.53, an old shopping list featuring cat food and half-and-half, also the IPhone I'm using to compose this missive, some lint.
Dear Hello Poetry you made me start writing poetry again.
I thought I was done with all that. It's too hard takes up too much of my time. Every second I spend arm-wrestling a poem is a second I could be using to eat peanut butter on toast or walk the dog.
Dear Hello Poetry - because of you somebody with an improbable hat called me a poet.
Don't tell my mother.
And Hello Poetry - because of you I cannot buy a hat.
But I'll get over all of that. I forgive you, Hello Poetry.
But please don't tell my mother.
The only hope I have for this poem is that some people will laugh when they read it.