due diligence

my poetry
will never be published

it's not
what they want

(the academia)

they want
grammar

they want me to make sense

they say
I owe
due diligence

and gently
with all obstinence
I disagree

my poetry
comes when it comes
growling its way out from my gut
without apology
purpose
or plan

these words
don't have a need for a home

they don't need an audience

they don't even need to be
any good

my poetry
is really just a tool
used to suck the poison from my blood
on a semi-regular basis

I mean
I could refrain
from using the word
Fuck  so often

but you know
Fuck that

and I could 
write about something else
besides women

but why should I

when I was a kid
and they asked me
what I wanted to be
when I grew up
I should have said

in love.




02/02/2018  AAW