I Write For ME, Not For You

Please don’t tell me how to write poetry.

Since when does it have a “standard length”?

What is “standard” anyway?

Maybe it should roll off the tongue

Streaming light words with heavy meanings

Because “every word holds weight”

And the spaces in between are more than just spaces

But pictures drawn to draw you in

But I tell you;

I like to keep it short.

No

 direction.

Placing

words

face down.

bare and simple

keeping-pointless-jargon-to-a-mi(a)nimal

because I write for me

not for you

to patch with written words

the 

h        ole      s

that spoken words leave behind.