i'm

   a poet;

what

     did you

        expect?

poets

    are not

       recipes

that

...     taste

like

             the rest.

call us;

     -odd
      -eccentric
        -weird
       -bipolar
        or strange.

we poets

     love whom
       we are

and we have

    absolutely
  
       no desire

         to change.

   we are artists

      with words...

in case you

      haven't heard.

  misunderstanding  us

       is something

       we're

          used to.

    we'll always

be outsiders;

    it's just

     what

         we do.

we are

     comfortable
there,

   we are loners

       it's true.

      we write
for ourselves...

    we don't write

          for you.