I'm Mad So I Got Pedantic
The next person
to tell me
that a poem is more
than letters
and spaces
and enter keys
should get smacked.
Of course
poetry is more than that.
But this is what
a poem is made of.
Just because a teenage girl
rather than your fave
old pedantic wrote
something that speaks
and listens
and breaths with borrowed life
doesn't mean her poem
should be followed by
commentary.
"Why does everyone
think a poem
can be made with just
a spacebar and enter key?"
because it can
it always has been about
having space to breathe.
the words must breathe to grow
upward like swirling vines
enrapping the members' minds.
The author must breath to feel
the slanting of her inclines.
The audience must breathe,
the audience must know,
the audience breathes to know
they are still alive
even as that life is siphoned off.
And we speak always
always we speak-
in a world of words
we just talk
we hear our voices echo back
or we could if we'd just breathe.
The spacebar and enter key
give us space-
give us a millisecond of silence
before we continue,
and that's what we need.