It’s Not That Easy

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is I know you think it’s just like milking a cow and getting the warm milk right in the jar but you couldn’t even do that You had someone help you because you didn’t want to touch the udder Write a poem about that Just like you think all poets just write poems about what is out the window and that we don’t fork our souls so that those three indentations ooze out the gorgeousness from the crevasse</p><p id="27b2">It’s not that easy to watch you watch me because I know you aren’t just watching You are judging my progress and wondering why I don’t have a real job One where I dress in khaki pants and a blue short-sleeved dress shirt and have a cubicle where I pin three photos up and one is of you but even if I had that job I would have hidden drawers full of overflowing words and myriad ideas of love, loss, grief and not just a random sheet with my friend’s Netflix password on it I would scribble my soul out on my lunch break spilling a green juice on my Dockers but my soul would be intact because I would be writing</p><p id="a290">I know you think it’s easy to sit down and do poetry things but that’s because you think that poetry is simple talk and advanced rhyming and nothing I could say will change your mind and that’s why it’s not easy Bec

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ause not that many people understand a poet’s struggle With words With demons With a definition of success Just like you How you look at me when I am working and you ask me about almond milk when I am on the precipice of the holy grail of all poems and then, in an instant it’s a puddle of that same almond milk and my brain is mush and I am a failure and you are still there thinking I should get a real job but I don’t like khakis and come to think of it I don’t like you because you don’t know me even after all these years and that is, by far the easiest thing I’ve come to know</p><p id="ddff">© <a href="undefined">Jonathan Greene</a> 2019</p><p id="1019">If you liked this, you might like this as well:</p><div id="27b7" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/sometimes-its-hard-to-see-45809eca1fe2"> <div> <div> <h2>Sometimes It’s Hard To See</h2> <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*CLyEKjKv2n2zB0cE)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

A Poem For Poets

I know you think it is but I have to tell you It’s not that easy to write these words It’s not A + B = C It’s more like a psychosis wrapped in a blanket of doubt coupled with delusions of grandeur with a side of self-loathing Are you up for that? Since you think you can do it Write your words Open your soul and breathe in How does it feel? If it feels great you are doing it wrong You’re not a poet You are a random person scribbling down words in forced iambic pentameter with no rhyme or reason No, I know you don’t get that I know you have lots of rhymes but that was a…forget it Those three minutes you took were totally what poets do Thank you for understanding

It’s not that easy To allow crows to peck my heart so the juice spills out onto the page creating a cacophony of beauty I know you think it is I know you think it’s just like milking a cow and getting the warm milk right in the jar but you couldn’t even do that You had someone help you because you didn’t want to touch the udder Write a poem about that Just like you think all poets just write poems about what is out the window and that we don’t fork our souls so that those three indentations ooze out the gorgeousness from the crevasse

It’s not that easy to watch you watch me because I know you aren’t just watching You are judging my progress and wondering why I don’t have a real job One where I dress in khaki pants and a blue short-sleeved dress shirt and have a cubicle where I pin three photos up and one is of you but even if I had that job I would have hidden drawers full of overflowing words and myriad ideas of love, loss, grief and not just a random sheet with my friend’s Netflix password on it I would scribble my soul out on my lunch break spilling a green juice on my Dockers but my soul would be intact because I would be writing

I know you think it’s easy to sit down and do poetry things but that’s because you think that poetry is simple talk and advanced rhyming and nothing I could say will change your mind and that’s why it’s not easy Because not that many people understand a poet’s struggle With words With demons With a definition of success Just like you How you look at me when I am working and you ask me about almond milk when I am on the precipice of the holy grail of all poems and then, in an instant it’s a puddle of that same almond milk and my brain is mush and I am a failure and you are still there thinking I should get a real job but I don’t like khakis and come to think of it I don’t like you because you don’t know me even after all these years and that is, by far the easiest thing I’ve come to know

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