regurgitating

Si said that poetry is shit
and some how, he found
some way to laugh, but
he's tender, and I think

that story he told me about
some chick he screwed
in the dorrm years ago
before kids and a wife
tamed his sorry ass

is only half true.

Poetry is, of course
shit. There's no debating that.

But then,
it's not so sad
that is what is left
after we eat our words.

Perhaps, Si and I
would not spew so much shit
if we shut up more.