they say you're just supposed to do these things
and the words come out
just
like
that
and even then
just then
my tab button didn't work
and i had to press the space bar instead
and i wonder when my poetry will ever pick up
when no one ever taught me
and my diction isn't that refined
and the words don't come snapsnapsnap
out on the
page like i see them doing all the time
taunting me.
and i don't even know where to put
the goddamn comma,
or is it
comma.
?
one day i might figure things out;
that is
if i am so graced
but for now,
.
?
i think i'll stick to prose.