People think
we poets waste our time
planning out words
trying to make them rhyme
weighing the worth
of each tiny letter -
we poets know a little better.
People think
that we poets are all
just depressed drunks
hippie hipsters
or self-satisfied monks
and in the end
we're all vagrants and bums -
we poets know that's only some.
People think
we poets are angered by humanity
furiously writing
strings of insanity
we're all mad here
in a number of ways
just blowing off steam
when we have nothing to say
and we declare our ramblings
to be God's gift -
we poets know our rights -
we plead the fifth.
People think
we poets know nothing
we poets are fools
that we are brainless
as a rule
and since our heads are so light
they float
or fly like kites
and that's how we come
to land in the clouds
of which
we are so proud
they think it's senseless
to hope
and pray
and dream like we do -
we poets know it to be true!
