fake poets

[bedeep]

(elseweb, someone wrote something about "real poets" that had me rolling my eyes, so I wrote this in response.)

fake poets
spray word confetti
from mouths of blunt teeth
from brains filled with
something like television
that never turns off

fake poets
think and say
their way inside bricks
get out again
using tricks abstracted
from mere mortar

fake poets
compete with hoddies
to win gravity sweepstakes
where no one's survival
is considered worth
the overtime

fake poets
breathe air eat food
bleed excrete and polish
verbal mirrors
until any random reader
can see a face

fake poets
fake it like this to play
to entertain
put on this whole show
as a way to complain
and make enough room
in the trap to stand it
because

those old fake poets
never die they just
weren't really here
at all