If I Could Wrap This Up in a Few Words
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I've tried to write long poems that will show up in SATs and other standardized tests but I can't
Then I realized something
I'm not meant to be complex
I'm not a poet of code language
And fancy structures with words that geniuses couldn't even understand
I say what I'm supposed to and then I leave, because that's the poet I am
I'll leave the odes and sonnets and all that to those with pens for Shakespeare and Keats
I learn for teachers like Neruda and Hughes and my most favorite Ms. Angelou
So if I could wrap this up in a few words
And say this in terms that people
With simplistic ideologies can understand
Poetry is a story told by the simplest but most complex story tellers ever known