Interview with a Poet
The Interviewer introduces the interview with a leading question.
Poet: What is my motivation for writing poetry?
I don’t really know
I suppose that it’s so
I get my thoughts out there
In the wide world
Where they can make a difference.
The Interviewer talks here
Poet: Of ‘course’ my poems ‘make a difference!’ Without my words, the World would be a whole lot worse.
Imagine the planet Earth with little or no mirth – it doesn’t bear thinking about…
… and, I doubt the scenario where poets don’t exist on any of the other mythical lumps of rock like ours.
Here the Interviewer pours scorn upon poetry in general as being shallow and booooooo(dull as ditchwater)ring!
Poet: Well, that’s rich coming from you!
I know you’ve got a job to do…
But, hey, let’s have a little bit of civility, please
Your inability to hold a cultured conversation
Without a smarmy, semi-witty observation
Upon the ‘nerdishness of poets’
Is just a childishness which is symptomatic of you all-know-its
Really! Do you think…
That’s it! Do you?
It doesn’t seem like you have a clue
Get yourself a new attitude
And don’t just sit there being rude
About hard-working types;
That really takes the biscuit
Abuse us more
If you want to risk it
But, remember, without us
The wheels have no bus
And the mat loses its cat.
Think upon that, my friend!
Interviewer: Right-oh! That’s about it: The End.
