Piss in Your Ass, Fuckface Cunt

A reader wrote me

Asking me if he could do a report on my life

For his high school class

And if so, could I provide some information?

I provided some

He then asked if he could read my poem in class

And I said

Please?

And then he asked me if I could offer my favorite

Poem without cursing

Because, as odd as it seems from my position

Of nearly ten years of liberation

(Even in college I cursed, consequences be damned

Because I foolishly thought college a place for

Rational and normal adults)

I pulled out the four books

And began to look

Finally, about half an hour later, I handed him one

The people who watch me read poems on video say

“YOU DENEGRATE YOUR POETRY WITH CURSING.

Be more sophisticated.”

My response:

Fuck you. You denigrate poetry with your expectations.

And you know what?

Poetry denigrates itself enough without me by being less accessible

I’ll take my chances with the working poor who do curse

As opposed to the intellectual literati with money

Because the working poor make a better audience

And the intellectual literati have their own poets.

Trust me.

Please?