What Poetry Is About

poetry isn’t about anything. it’s about you with your head spinning & your thoughts discombobulated it’s about the meatloaf-faced lunch lady with depression & joy in the mashed potatoes of her curly white hair & flattened by a brown string net & it’s about the tough boy walking with a hand over his crotch & the fighting girls flailing arms & claws & scratching & pulling at skin & anger & hissing between their teeth it’s about humanity who e. e. cummings hates & loves & i hate & love too & once again it’s about you & me & you again & us both of whom look at each other with the disgusted interest of a woman with eyes locked at her own reflection & it’s about trees teaching us about death & flies teaching us about death & sunrises teaching us about death & sunsets teaching us about death it’s about life it’s about the blues fueled by love (which never seems to work out) tragedy & comedy mixed up shakespeare style & poetry is about everything¬hing poetry is about [the musings of the soul]