AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A POET
C Ra McGuirt
he said,
after i bumped him
to the end of the list.
he thought i did it out of revenge
because he put me down last time,
but damn, he does that every month
with perfect consistency,
by which i mean
he does it badly every month,
& usually several people leave
before he's through.
i guess they're afraid
that the rest of us will be like him
or that he'll just keep reading...
it honors me to be attacked.
anything's better than being ignored.
but he does it with so little style
or grace, or class, or especially craft,
that it pisses me off to be seen
in the company of his words.
but that's not why i bumped you, boy.
you took too fucking long.
8 people left,&everyone else
already knew why we who don't
believe you to be the truth on 2 legs
are liars.
call myself a poet?
i'm almost afraid to. after all,
if i called for a poet,
i might get
you
instead.
