One of My Own


after reading Denise Duhamel’s
poems

I want to write one of my own and,

although, I know it’s the lamest

thing in the world for a writer
struggling

with writer’s block to write about

how he’s unable to write I don’t
care

because I’m filling up the lines of

this page and it feels good and

it feels right and I don’t think

about it as something other people
will

look at and laugh at and point to

saying, this is definitely the kind of

thing you want to avoid, especially,

you young writers, out there

remember:  don’t fall into the trap of


writing poems about how you can’t

write poems because it’s old and
tired and,

frankly, no one wants to hear it,
anymore

no, I don’t think about it like that

at all because sometimes it’s good
to do

something that has been done
before and

even if a million people have,
already, done it

and every one of them has done it
better

than I could ever do it doesn’t mean

I shouldn’t do it too so I do and

I like it and when it’s done I feel

better, even, if just a little bit