i'm glad i didn't try & write a poem today

ya know
you're only as good as your last one
so i know when it's time to walk away for awhile
before you cast it
or throw it up
over the internet

sometimes making up bullshit

can be counter-productive
or counter-revolutionary
or both

though i've never seen it

i can imagine
how an apprentice or american idol
might just go on without caring
about ultimate consequences
     for every porta-potty
     there's an advertiser
     trying to sell you shit

but they're not the poets

they're not the stewards

hah

gotcha

--- e b bortz