Love Me - Love My Poetry - Poem by Bonnie Alden Phillips

I once wrote some poetry - the best, 
the finest POETRY 
My POETRY came with a capital
"P". 
My POETRY was distinguished
POETRY, proper, complete line of 
Verse POETRY - honorable, 
prehistoric, geographical POETRY
Divine, instinctive, even religious
POETRY -
I sent it to the magazines
The very good magazines
The very best magazines -
They returned it to me every time! 
I once wrote some inferior POETRY
Low in style, irregular in measure
POETRY
Undignified, trivial, absurd POETRY
inadequate, mischievous, comic
POETRY
Some stuff like this - A CRIME -
I sent it to the magazines
The very good magazines
The very best magazines

They kept it every time! 
Now, I ask of you - my question is
fair and brief - I ask
Of you - your ear I pray and beg you
give -
Shall I write intuitive, 
comprehensive, reasoning
POETRY
Specific, Godlike, Capitol
committed POETRY
The sort I think will live? 
Or shall I write inferior, very bad
POETRY - the kind that soon is
Dead - and send it to the magazines, 
the very good, the best magazines
THAT I MAY LIVE INSTEAD!!! 

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