I can write haikus
Without the least bit trouble,
And with quite some skill.

Couplets are not too hard either for me
They are energetic and flow easy.

It’s not very difficult at all
To bring laughs big and small
With limericks clever
But the reader never
Sees past his mental wall.

Cause everyone wants to see free verse.
***** blank verse and sonnets;
They are much too ancient to give a **** about.

But personally,
I like to write patterns
And pictures,
And various forms galore.
I measure each stanza
With mathematical perfection
And streamlined beauty.
It was with ultimate mechanical accuracy
That I wrote my pieces,
But it seems no one cares to read
poems like that anymore.

So cut rhyme scheme
And syllable counting
And rhythm
And tempo
And iambic meter
And metaphor
And reason
And purpose
And stanzas
And lines
And words

Scratch it all out
Until even a hung-over
Shaking hand
Can write “poetry