English

What a Poet is

a poet is not a writer

rilke and stephen king don't work the same trade

a poet is not a philosopher a philosopher

thinks

ages

and dies

yet the poet doesn't even have time

to get born

the poet is not a dreamer

he

never sleeps

he resides in a space outside love

do you know what the poet is the poet is

to every single one of us every single day

something different

I

for example

at this very moment

i see the poet as the only reason

for a clock

when you take a picture of it

to always tell ten past ten

precisely ten past ten

Some Nights

i've never learned to sleep

alone

and to live alone

you've never taught me how

so do you really want to know

what i do

just asking

at night i dream thoughts

and by day i think dreams

yet right now it's nighttime

and it's life

kind of