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poems are not creative writing
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Bad poetry poems are not creative writing
that’s a class they offered at my high school.
but sometimes
something seizes your small human body
somewhat naked depending on whether or not you count
your sleeper shirt with the burgundy wine all about it
between the apartment where you live and the dumpster
where you lived for a few hours
that
one
time. you’re still breathing
of course but suddenly it’s all smoke
like you’ve really gone and become a cigarette
all your own breathing black above you into
the sky-thick anvil
of charcoal and starlight. you crawl into the house
on your uncoordinated, unpretty feet
and you put some of the words
onto something real.
you don’t know how you would tell your father about it.
you have to call it a poem.
