How To Be A Poet, free MA lesson

Here is a poem I dragged up
from the simple mechanism
of writing in stanzas like a poet.
You see,
you just take normal speech
and put it with line breaks
where you want the line to break
and where you want the words
to go. It is simple, not a trick
or a greatness, but just a thing
like a spoon or some cigarettes.

They teach students this in school
for thousands of dollars.
So if by chance you were thinking
of becoming a poet, or that you
want to be a poet, you can thank
me for saving you thousands of dollars,
all of you would-be poets out there
all of you real poets out there
and all of you poets out there who
already knew.