Reply to Mark's rant about poets

Reply to Mark's rant about poets

I must refrain
from the cocaine
cos it equates to poetry?

Just smoke dope
to lift my hope
of knocking out a story

Ten times more
can be conveyed
in four lines of poetic prose

Than a thousand
unconnected words
from the literary pen of those

Who judge all others
to themselves
in the hope that they

Will appear
more sincere,
superior and au fait

To compare
two varied styles
is to miss the point

You can't compare
a line of coke
to a smoking joint

Or steak and cheese
and chalk and pork
and talk and song and beer

no more than you can
twin together
Spinal tap and Blur

Stick to what
you want to do
don't go following the herds

Get motivated
by the slightest thing
Remember, Mark...My words

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