preface to a diary

before i let you
read this poetry journal
you need to know
some things

i don't write very well
(in fact, you may not
be able to decipher all
these words.  when i
let it all out, my writing slants
this way and that, trying hard
to pull the emotions
out of me.  footnotes will be
provided)

i seldom rhyme
(so how can it be poetry?
but, then again, when i try
to rhyme, i end up sounding
like some demented dr. seuss
or a clean limerick that won't
get to the point.... so why try?)

i consider myself
a poet only because
i see things differently
(and explain things
laboriously

like that one time
i said that someone was
in the spell of delusion,
and
under a clouded umbrella

and several other mumbled phrases
until my co-worker asked
"why can't you just say he's insane
like everyone else?")

i'm not like everyone else
for better or for worse

so, be kind as you judge......

(read)

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