Fat Sack - Aug. 24, 2025

every poet I know

stores extra words

in their stomach

sitting down so much

it’s the logical place

for them to go

I know inspiration

enters through

the heart and brain

but if a poem doesn’t

use it all, we don’t like

to throw the rest away

there’s famine in poetry,

too, and a fat sack of

nouns and verbs

has kept me alive