What do you wish you'd learned at school about poetry?

[milo]

I wish I had learned that it was OK for ME to write poetry.
That it wasn't something only famous people did. That it
didn't have to be hard or serious. I could write crazy stuff,
weird stuff, anything I wanted to, just for fun. It didn't
have to be homework or something I'd be graded on. It didn't
even have to rhyme. I could write about my bicycle or what
my sister did to me or dirt. I could write about dirt and mud
if I wanted to. All that stuff. It didn't have to be important,
it didn't have to be good. I was free, I could say the most
terrible things. I could kill people, I could say fuck any
time I wanted to. It was something just for myself that
teachers, adults, bullies couldn't stop me from doing. I didn't
need permission, I could do it even if they told me not to.
It was mine.

yah . . . I don't think we should encourage this type of behavior