On Being a Poet

When you’re a kid
on Saturday afternoon
your lunch
is probably something like
a salami sandwich
and Spaghettios

and when you’re an adult
it’s pretty much the same
except it’s dinner
Thursday
at 10:30 p.m.

and your milk
is a can
of cheap beer
like High Life
or Old Style

make that a few glasses of milk

and you work tomorrow
instead of school

you finished school
long ago
and realized
most of it’s
bullshit

you wanted to be
an astronaut when
you grew up

and now
you’re all grown up
and serving the astronauts
chocolate-covered truffles
and gummi fruit salad

I was a kid
until I picked up “HOWL”
and that made me want to be a poet

So this bowl of Ramen’s for you
Ginsberg

You fucking asshole

© 2008 Lee Kitzis