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3 reasons why poetry sucks sometimes*

1: how it can be used as an apology;
like a pretty love poem will wipe away
the scum from the night before,
selfish scabs picked off
with sentimental sloping writing.

2: how cruel and demanding it can be;
like an unsatisfied lover it demands
attention until the poem comes wetly
across the waiting lap.

3: how it attracts and divides;
mostly it creates fierce bonds
between poets but it can also spark
into fire as the words burn one
against another into smoke.

*but I love it anyway