I don’t write confessional poetry

Jason Preu, ,

I don’t write poems like diary entries

I don’t want you to read my goddamn diary

I don’t want to tell you about a trauma I endured

You can watch Real Housewives to soak up traumas endured

I write poems like I have sex

Kinda sweaty kinda weird kinda hard

Sometimes over too soon

Sometimes carrying on, trying to impress, making up for something someone told me long ago that I can’t deal with until I’m naked and on fire

I read poems like their author is coming on to me

I don’t care who they are

That’s how I read ‘em and I like it that way

I think most poets probably write poems like they have sex

I think when a poem is right it comes out like a dragon’s orgasm and comes in just where you need it most yeah just like that

I don’t write confessional poetry

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