THE MAIN THING

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

I don't care
about your poem

What I mean is
I DON'T CARE...

if your poem is political
I just won't be discussing
it with you

if your poem is personal
as long as you are
only crying in ways that
don't show on the outside

if your poem is salacious 
as long as it's funny and dirty 
at the same time

if your poem
is a prose poem if you
don't mind me saying it's prosaic

if your poem is a sonnet
I'll just imagine you
in your Easter Bonnet 

if you stole your poem
from someplace else as long as
it's nothing I've already read

if your poem is an erasure poem
(you should have erased it
before anyone saw it)

The main thing is 
that you get on with it 

because
we
both
know
this
ends 
badly

for him
for you
for me 
quite possibly for the world
and most assuredly
for this poem