Bad Poet

You try to tell the truth.

You may be drunk and wrong. 

You don't care 

about that part.

People get wisdom from

people on the street.

How am I different?

I love where this is going...

I'm just not sure I can get there.

Any art that's good is going to

piss some people off.

We know this.

Poetry is the way I discovered

what I am. You want to argue 

with this?  

Poetry is what I clicked into

as an intelligent human being

where I could express myself

freely pissing into the wind.

The ones that understand 

language, that love words,

might connect with me.

This is not where I hoped it

would go. It's not bad enough.