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I've Fallen Out Of Love With Poetry

from New and Selected Breakdowns E​.​P. by Kevin P. Gilday

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I've fallen out of love with poetry
It's not me it's you
That spark has gone wandering
Amidst countless painful open mics,
Anxiety inducing slams, clique politics
And
The complete absence of ever being paid

I've fallen out of love with poetry
Because of your fucking whiny voices
And your earnest subjects
Contrivedly crafted for universal agreement
I'm glad we've sorted out that racism is bad -
I was a wee bit sketchy until you took the mic

I've fallen out of love with poetry
With your mid-atlantic inflections
and borrowed speech patterns
Because you all learned to slam
From Americans on youtube
Instead of saying what you feel

I've fallen out of love with poetry
Because your body issues are not important,
Unlike mine
Of course you're an outsider
You're reading fucking poetry
This is a club for weirdos
This much we know

I've fallen out of love with poetry
Because you write too many love poems
And they don't come easily to me
Grand metaphors like quixotic sculptures
Hewn from the marble of your affections,
Or something

I've fallen out of love with poetry
Because rhyming is seen as uncool
Despite it being a useful linguistic tool
A literary device taught to kids at school
Yet I stand up here like a mawkish ghoul
Because my poetic preference marks me out as a fool,
Or something

I've fallen out of love with poetry
Because these young people -
Are actually quite good
And I'm not sure if there's a space
For a grown man's wearisome compositions
And chronic oversharing


I've fallen out of love with poetry
Because it's fallen out of love with me

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from New and Selected Breakdowns E​.​P., released February 19, 2016

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Kevin P. Gilday Glasgow, UK

Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow, Scotland.

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