the shallow poet's bucket list

the shallow poet's bucket list

 

 

i spit on meaning

want to write poems

about nothing that mean nothing

 

don't want beauty either

to hell with imagery

alliteration

anything that shines a light

 

want to write poems

about nothing that mean nothing

 

don't want abstract, contract

or cataracts from too much reading

or thinking or expecting then rejecting

ideas

 

just want to write words

and words and more words

to fill a space

not an emptiness of heart

or soul

but i want control

of syllables, put a lasso around them

keep them so simple

they are meaningless

but just fill a space

a page

 

a little butter on the clutter

to slide them all into a verse

to curse all of the metaphors

allegories

and meanings between the lines

i don't care if it is a strict yellow line

i don't want to cross it

with anything that has thesis

or jesus ties

 

just want lies

that nothing matters

and what i write

are poems 

about nothing that mean nothing

 

then i could die happy

without a care in the world

as i spit on meaning

clutching my Thesaurus

with my cold bones.

 

erin-cilberto

12/20/24

Reviews

[Ern M. Yoshimoto]

it's a biting satire on the state of literature nowadays. society as a whole has digressed and took the artform with it. i lament our fate, but i did find a lot of giggles reading this. hope you have a good one mate.

[Stella Armour]

Smiling here Jacob on this cold winter morning, these are usually the poets who like to criticise mostly well thought out and presented words with lots of spiritual and wordly thoughts.
Having said that i do worry sometimes that my rather ethereal poetry is read to be something literal when it is mostly poetic story telling with a message.
I suppose empty heads are full of nothing that means nothing ...