Most poetry
is written by lonely women
with too many cats
or men who drink
too god dam much but
offer no repentance
because they've realized
hangovers start their day
with the prerequisite suffering
It is much easier to experience
the melancholy of the women
than to search for lucid thoughts
from the men
The women are at ease
when you join them for tea
and sad reflections at the kitchen table
while the men make you swim
in a pool of their hopelessness
where you can't touch the edge
The women live long quiet lives
tending their garden of beautiful memorials
while the men self-immolate with their demons
and leave us the ashes of "what if".
Being a poet
is a hell of a thing.
Ken Owen Van Niddy Press April 2015
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