I should learn about poetry.
I know nothing about it
except how to rhyme
there and their
and where and were-
(as in were-wolf, doncha know)
and how you don’t always have to rhyme
if you’re writing free verse.

I also know how to write a haiku
and a limerick
but I don’t work fucking blue.
I’ve heard that there’s meter; that’s popular, too.

That’s about the extent of my knowledge of form.

And poets? I know just a few.
Mostly people I’ve met.
You may know them, too.
There’s Ollie and Heather and Dan and John
and John. There’s Stevie, I guess.
Wayne and Phil and Linda and Erik and Rick.

There’s some people I don’t know too,
I’ll bet.
I wonder who they are?