how to write poetry
Take a word – flower
The flower is simply a fact.
Don’t try to make it sound pretty
Do not attempt to make it beautiful.
The word flower can do that all by itself.
It does not need you to associate it
with grand notions of innocence and frailty.
How do you know that the flower
doesn’t like a good fuck?
So don’t, even for a moment,
suggest that you know flowers more than anyone else.
The word flower is not an opportunity
for you to represent your feelings;
it is not a chance for you to symbolize
your emotions.
Nobody gives a fuck about what you feel.
“Just speak the word and step aside.”

















