Put this in your Writer's Block and Smoke it

Put this in your Writer's Block and Smoke it

 

 

inducted into the bad poets Hall of Fame

i gave my acceptance speech

 

a long, long soliloquy

in ode form

which was really poor form

because everyone

was sleeping or weeping

or keeping one eye on the door

 

hoping there wouldn't be much more

 

and the room soon realized

why i had garnered enough votes

as my voice began to bloat

with less than sublime rhyme

which in time became accursed free verse

which just got worse

 

as i read another bad poem

and another and another and yet another

weak, bleak, "pat on the back seeking"

spew of proverbial, verbal self-indulgence

 

and to think,

you indulged me to read this

 

and so in closing,

thank you all very much for this honor

as i dishonor you,

 

with just one more little

poem

before you go home

 

even though in your mind

you're already there--- hours ago.

 

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

6/30/13

Reviews

[Sheila Kline]

Oh Dang Jacob, you have me so totally bored by your poem that I shouldn't have bothered..........kidding, KIDDING, KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!-sometimes, I just can't help myself!
This is a great take on how good we think a poem may be, and how bad it may actually be, or how out of whack the audience is, or how hard we've tried, or, or???.....LOL
Love this, but then I love all of your poems - writer's block, or not! And I really enjoyed the rhyme........

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i absolutely love your reply...thank you for the smile.

j.