I Started Out Writing Horror (But Poetry Proved Better)

Messrs King and Kerouac both made me want to write 

Their Horror and Beat novels were the first  I had to bite

Grisly ghosts and vampires, mysterious stolen letters, 

I started out writing horror, but poetry proved better.

Soon I discovered that I could rhythm and rhyme

With the best of poets, for most of the time.

I relished the pleasure of playing with words, 

which seemed to form stanzas , of their own accord.

I wrote poems on paper, on websites and zines, 

I Skyped them and typed them, on dusty laptop screens.

My horror tales were cliche-filled, and really not too good, 

Recycling old psychotic tropes, and squeezing out the blood..

So here I am a poet,a potential  go-getter, 

I started out writing horror, but poetry proved better!