Sonnet

p.s. i realised i didn’t answer your question, what follows is my attempt

it’s difficult though because i’ve never been sure just how serious all of this is

i mean you spoke of substances, and poetry, and mothers…?

i can get my head around the first two, and the last two, but all three

are like a venn diagram that is stubbly and smells of beer.

when i first decided i wanted to be a poet

(it wasn’t long ago/ not as long as you’d think)

i thought, if only i can be a poet maybe i won’t need

mothers, and substances, and stances

but when i was shrieked at ‘you don’t want to be a

poet; you’re just too lazy to get on T.V.!!’ i thought

about it a lot because it was partly true and

partly true and partly true and partly true and partly true

but i like sonnets and so, it seems, do you.