Unmitigated verse
Don't ever read these poems
They are not literary fait accomplis
I am not board certified to write poetry
My relatives are inbred
Some of them were even from Arkansas
I am not a wizard of words
Hiding behind the curtain of degree
It is only your own time you waste here
Don't ask me to mail a check for lost hours
Any mental illness that ensues
After being exposed here
Or if you break out in a mixed pox, of metaphors
Worse, if you catch this virus
And begin to write unmitigated verse
Tangled in aphorism and drowned in simile
And nobody wants to read it
Realize then, that you are committing poetry-
Which is an indefinable offense
Under the statutes of pablum.
poem by Patti Masterman
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