So where are
all the literary groupies
anyway?
That’s the one
I’d really like
to know
Just where exactly
are they all hiding?
These, I think,
are ultimately,
the most important questions
I always look
but everywhere I go;
every reading
I show up to perform
I can’t ever
seem to find them
it gets so
I really wanna
just give up
and go home
and maybe,
just maybe
quit the whole game
I can’t write
for shit anymore
and the groupies
just don’t seem
to really exist anymore
I wonder if
this poetry gig
is worth
all the effort
It sure is
I keep telling
myself that
I continue to persist
in this damn delusion