UNDETERRED

 

 

I could whine

about Ginsberg

or Rupi Kaur

 

or the general state

of the universe

 

and it would be

hollow complaint

falling on deaf ears

waiting to dismiss me

 

waiting to tell me

I’m nothing compared

to Corso or Dunbar

or Dickenson

or any other poet

 

my run on sentences

paraded publicly

as profound verse

fooling next to no one

 

but I continue

undeterred

 

with minimal complaint

I live and let live

They do their thing

and I do mine

 

I’ll likely be content

when I meet my maker

imperfect, ever brutish

I followed my own muse

 

Undeterred by critics

I dug into the vortex

entirely at my own pace

 

 

 

 

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