Iron Mountain ski jump

Iron Mountain ski jump

Saturday, April 20, 2019

PRETENDING TO BE BILLY


Facebook told me
that I could
for only ninety dollars
learn from Billy
Collins how to write
a poem.

Nobody can write
like Billy
no matter how much
cash you offer
the poetic muses
or even Billy

For ninety dollars
I can sit
in The Pour House
coffee shop pretending
to be a poet
for a month

That way Billy
won’t have to worry
about the competition

John Robert McFarland

“The key to living; just do the next right thing.”

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