Not Really A Proper Poem

By Steve Button

Sun, 10 Jul 2011
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Automatic writing is easy peasy
It's just swoosh and there you go
Just do it
Nike poetry
Maybe I'll get free trainers for that
Bit of product placement
I'm not above the sell out if there's
Money in it specially if you get it for
Rabbiting on like this

Except you don't of course
You never get a penny for verse
And who can blame them
When you can churn out stuff
With your eyes shut
In your sleep
And your brain in neutral
Or your fingers on auto-pilot
I've got some old rope somewhere
If you've got a few quid spare
Any offers?
You could pay me to stop

Go on
You know you want to

Certificate U
Poem
Humour

Comments

Submitted by mattstreatham on
Ha, thats great, raised a smile :O)

Submitted by Steve Button on
Thanks Matt. Written in response to automatic writing challenge :-) Glad you got a smile out of it.

 

Submitted by well-wisher on
Very enjoyable and interesting. Have you written any other automatic poems? I would be interested in reading them. I would like to improve my automatic poem skills because I think it might help to improve my poetry skills in general. I liked the 'swoosh' 'Nike Poetry' lines. I thought that was clever.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn