this is meat and potatoes.
this is a full meal
with buttered biscuits on the side.
yep. this is the real deal
they will tell you this is poetry.
but I knew better when I was five.
this is not cherry alive.
this is meat and potatoes.
you cut it with a knife and fork.
this is not Shakespeare on the Duke of York
this is a bunch of people who got together one day
and couldn't decide what to say to make it be poetry
so they all voted on it and just decided
that anything they said no matter what is was
was going to be called poetry anyway from now on.
like little kids when they're losing the board games
all summer long and tump over all the pieces and say:
new rules now. let's start over. and be in clover.
that's what they did. out of their Id
they made that Cinderella slipper fit
by cutting off their toes.
but everybody still knows
who the true bride is orwho was.
mary angela douglas 2 may 2021
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