napowrimo 2020 #15

REALLY BAD POETS

(LIKE ME)

Bad poets are really baaad

bad because we wanna be really baaad

Sad as it may seem to the educated

dreamer really baaad poets are bad

because they wanna be baaad

They repeat themselves too much

such and such rhyme all the time

internally and end line

Force the silly billy iambic pentameter

mount the syllabic count down to the ground

surround their act with half baked jokes

Baaad poets are really bad

baaad because we wanna be really bad

Stanza's verses couplets quatrains

we might as well be cleaning drains

nobody listens when we hum

or reads much beyond line one

But writing poetry can be fun

and I for one know that it keeps

me bleep bleep mad insane

a crazy simple writing game

Perhaps some baaad poets like me

only crave the irresistibility of mediocrity

that Wilde spoke about in Dorian Gray

then again maybe we wanna be bad

Sometimes we tell lots of lies

and plagiarise surprise surprise

Haiku Sudoku which one would you do

something simple cinquain please explain

Here we go again really baaad poets

like me (and I like them too) are bad

because we wanna be baaad

15042020