Please
Please, I don't want to be a poet
Not one of those dripping wash-cloths of a writer
Who tires the eyes with words like
Evermore
or
Asunder
Not a poet
Who          thinks
Ridiculous spacing
Like this is cool

God
Can’t I be something respectable

lawyer
astronomer
doctor
proctologist!

I’d rather mine real ******* than those attached to aesthetes.