Writing to Someone

Should I start confessing things? Should I
Promote the furtherance of knowledge about me?
Who’d ever take to learning more of my human condition?
Possible readers have their own potential conditions.
In case of doubt, they resort to a practitioner.

That said, I have recently realized that
Having reached canonical age and having authored canonical writs
One still may largely jot prescriptions to self.
Because other people continue to have other worries.
This is about life
And this is about poetry.

That said, I have furthermore made out
Dabblers to be not necessarily bad practitioners.
They’ve been able to chalk up some traces of success.
Because conditions are ideally self-inflicted
Any self-responsible goofball will do.
This is once more about life
And this is once more about poetry
And this is even a bit of a confession.

November 24, 2009