QUITE

QUITE

it doesn’t matter
if you can’t
do your taxes

fly a plane
or even drive a car

make love to
a man
   to a man
or lover non-
gender specific

none of
these things

matter
at all

left-brained, right-brained
schizophrenic, dyslexic

pro-
universal peace
or hungering for
thermonuclear war

everything will be fine
as long as you
never
   attempt poetry

as is
     well known, and
absolutely historically proven,

starting
   to write poetry
is the universal mistake
found throughout the galaxy

incontestably quite
the biggest disaster of all