Cautionary Poems
Michael Cope
 

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Elvira, Who Wrote Poetry

Elvira, who looked like an elf
Wrote poems all about herself:
She gushed out all her joys and fears,
And set in type her saltest tears,

Her sex-life, in a verbal mush
She chronicled, without a blush,
Her existential angst (a maze,)
The thoughts she thought in dark clichés

And then a free-verse ode or three
Complaining of her bleak ennui...
And took them to the open mic,
And read them, and asked, "Do you like?"

The audience politely clapped
But did not seem completely rapt;
The Featured Poet wouldn't say
What she thought, but slipped away.

The others gave evasive stares
And hastened to the mic with theirs.
Elvira, starting off depressed,
Became increasingly distressed:

She spent an hour at the bar
Then threw herself before a car.
The moral? Let me keep it terse:
Don't build your selfhood on free verse.