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THE LEGACY
If I were a poet... Curtis Prevo
If I were a poet, I’d write more poetry. Well, I’m not, and I’d hate to write verse with symmetry, as the distant cousin of prose was made to be simply confounding and utterly meaningless, with few words resounding, leaving mess after mess of wordy disasters made sappy and long-winded by teens, tweens, and other poetry “masters”. I will not rescind it, my unbiased opinion of that horrid thing deemed poetry by some, and by others, trash. Of complainers, I’m king, for which I am proud and others call me brash. My reasons are as follows, in no particular order, for why poetry should be sent to the gallows, or, if preferred, drawn and quartered: For years since the invention of paper, as the Chinese evidently pioneered, we’ve seen acceptable rhyming taper into something that has veered? been feared? at which people have jeered? Anyway, something that allows rhyming “to” with “to” as I did in the first four lines of this poem. And, as most people would do, poets in modern times have taken it upon themselves to completely abandon rhyming, rhythm, and symmetry altogether, opting instead for long bits of prose, falsely presented to the public as poetry. Unfortunately for those of us that
