liars
all the poets lie about inspiration
& the difficulty of poetics & how
hard it is to "do art" when asked the
inevitable questions about where they
get their ideas & how hard it is to write poems
in the current political climate during promos
on book tours when no one pays attention
to poets outside of MFA programs, inaugurations,
open mic nights, music row, TikTok A.I. slop &
whoever the hell buys all the Rupi & Atticus
paperbacks for HPB & ThriftBooks so here's
the unvarnished truth about "speaking your
art" & you're not going to like it so here
it goes: live your life & pay attention & read
a shit ton in the down times & write about
all that & maybe if you lived well or good or even
really fucking horribly bad your audience will get
it but stop with the inspirational shit okay because
nobody needs another bromide to help us realize
life sucks & we need to solider on because
that is the point of art in case you missed it