I scroll down
on poetry websites
such as All/Hello poetry
and I read the poems
on both of them
and they're all the same
either with too much
imagery and metaphor
they remind me of that saying
less is more.
Then there's the ones
who rhyme and they sound
like children's books
they don't understand
how writing
a good rhyming poem
is harder than
committing ******
and getting away with it.
That's why I avoid them at all costs.
And finally,
there's the fictional poems
often tied to contests
and they're often either
nursery rhyme poems
or drift store Picasso imitations.
I don't get it.
Why don't people just talk
about their day and how
folding the laundry
or scrubbing the toilet
somehow gave them an epiphany
that made them write a poem
about their most recent ****** encounter
with their wife that was way better
than their previous one?
If they would apply this philosophy
into their poems
then I wouldn't be stuck
reading about
the sick, the dying, and the dead.