The next poem will be filled with metaphors
and similes
and rhymes and parallelograms
and syllogisms, aphorisms,
and things that make you go hmm
("things that make you go hmm.")

The next poem will be perfectly
exceptional, delectable, intrasexual
and wholly irrational to the common eye.
It’ll be something else
and something else again.

But it’ll only get there
if you get past this one.