Unmitigated Verse

Don't ever read these poems They are not literary fait accomplis I am not board certified to write poetry My relatives are inbred Some of them were even from Arkansas I am not a wizard of words Hiding behind the curtain of degree It is only your own time you waste here Don't ask me to mail a check for lost hours Any mental illness that ensues After being exposed here Or if you break out in a mixed pox, of metaphors Worse, if you catch this virus And begin to write unmitigated verse Tangled in aphorism and drowned in simile And nobody wants to read it Realize then, that you are committing poetry- Which is an indefinable offense Under the statutes of pablum.