"My Poetry" by Philip Athans

May 26
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My Poetry

I don’t want my poetry

to be a list of complaints

No one wants to hear that

including me

I don’t want my poetry

to be about me at all

No one cares about me

including me

I don’t want my poetry

to get in anyone’s way

to stop anyone in their tracks

except me

I don’t want my poetry

to be left unread

by anyone

except me

Maybe

I don’t want my poetry

at all.

bio: Editor and author Philip Athans has been a driving force behind varied media including Alternative fiction & poetry magazine and Wizards of the Coast. He lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.

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