No More Poems
by Joe Mitchell
April 16, 2009 — Published in Verse
I don’t want to corrupt another
clean white sheet with a poem.
I’d rather light it on fire
and mail the ashes
to The Atlantic Review
(with a neatly completed submission form).
Or better, to blast it at close range
with a shotgun and throw the ribbons
from my balcony down to the sidewalk–
a ticker-tape parade for whoever happens to be around.
Joe Mitchell
Joe Mitchell reads, plays guitar and stirs up trouble. Parents pay him to teach their children algebra, but he secretly assigns Bukowski and Vonnegut. He studies philosophy, psychology, math, and statistics at Arizona State University. His greatest ambition is to produce his own facial hair.
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