Ars Poetica #97 / Affirmations #5
you will not win the yale younger
because your manuscript was rushed
and there are many poets who write
more life affirming poems than you
ones thats are just familiar enough
to resonate but also place the reader
in a pleasant amount of discomforting
rumination that makes them say
fuck tomoorrow I will buy a metal straw
recently the age limit was lifted from the yale younger
but i would need 10x the amount of lifetimes
to write enough poems that can logically be put in
conversation with each other to be considered a collection
and humans do not live that long and poetic tastes change
over generations
whoever wins the yale younger will have a slightly easier
time obtaining employment as a tenure track professor
jakob from workshop now sells mortgages
and posts his poems on facebook they get
a fair amount of likes and a number of people
from our workshop comment about how they like
the combination of adjectives and nouns
tonight at softball he yelled the housing market is booming
from left field as i got caught stealing second
i asked if any pro scouts were presented
jakob left the game early
because he and his wife
had to go to a wedding
the next morning
i stayed for the double header
to get my batting average above 300
no one important was at the game
i could still go pro
Softball Team
It’s getting late. We should probably
call it. I should probably call you
to say, I’ll be home later than I thought.
The field lights have been on
for a while now and the ball is disappearing
when thrown from third to first.
I will not go out for beers tonight
because I forgot a change of clothes,
and I do not want to talk about mutual
funds after hours and I do not have
many common interests
with my coworkers beyond our trite
dislike for our boss. Before Geoff
was our boss, he was our star shortstop,
because he had a killer pick off move,
and had a gravitational personality
and gave really good pregames/
seventh inner rally speeches,
which is probably also why
he got promoted to be our boss.
I have led the company in all
important numbers: new clients,
returning clients yearly returns,
and RBI, but I am kinda shy
and lack the personal skills
needed to interview well, and socialize
outside of the workplace. Which is also
why I am calling you to say
I’ll be home soon.
