Overrated
It's not about what people usually think - this "being a poet" thingamajigger.
Overrated
They're always askin' me
"When's your book coming out?"
and I tell 'em
next month,
I'm working on it
next year,
just you wait
etc ...
The postman, my neighbor, my bartender
my neighbor's kid, the barber
even
my alter ego.
I should just come clean
and say what I mean
"Never."
Books are overrated.
The minute you finish one
the thing is dead.
And then what?
So the notebooks pile up in
my back closet
and the word stays alive
as I like any poet
of good ilk
find better ways
to lie.
“A poem is never finished. Merely abandoned.” - Paul Valery