Why Poetry?

Why Poetry?

Why do I write?
When do I write?

Prose
when I want to make my audience
understand my point.
Poetry
when I want to,
but know that I cannot
make my audience understand my point.
Nor get them
to give a damn about it.

Prose
gets me results.
Poetry
stops me from killing myself.

I often wish
that I did not write poetry.

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