miles davis
beat his wife
with the same hands
he brilliantly fingered
other women
and his trumpets with
because he was just a man
hemingway’s liver committed suicide
long before the self-prescribed bullet
found his head
and i am a poet
who says
screw the word poetess
it sounds too much like
pretentious pussy princess
the digits holding my pen
have sinned
well and often
and will soon be at it again
because birthing art
requires
you make one hell of a bloody mess
4 replies on “one hell of a bloody mess”
My apologies…I did use ‘poetess’ in a previous comment but was said more as a joke, teasing for fun.
Oh, no apology necessary. Use it freely, it’s just not a term I self-apply. It should be used jokingly, that you have precisely right. Your comments and thought are forever welcome.
That’s exactly what I was thinking when Ye Pirate apologized. This happens ALOT with me. Why is that when you express your opinion for yourself, others take that to mean you expect that of everyone else too?
Some pandering. Some patronizing. Some with oppositional tendencies. Passive aggression. Genuine misunderstanding of the statement. I could go on…