What the fuck is poetry
Should it express your love of trees
Should it make you go down to the sea
again

Should it rhyme
or be in time
Like a song
or is that wrong

Should it express your love of iambic pentameter
When we gaze upon it should it become a sonnet

or

Should it be lean and mean
Like the music of the streets
Rusty with hard corners and sharp edges
Meandering recitation
Withering sensation
Quiet hesitation
Complete and total separation

Should it be dull and unaware
dull and nascient
It can be hard to get that spare precision
when two roads diverge
and the one least taken
leads to the liquor store