Pros[e] (28/100)

[flavourwater]

I am no Gwendolyn Brooks,
with fetching books
and cocoa smooth words

I am no Langston Hughes
spelling out social cues,
a man who writes of clowns and communists

Ernest Hemingway
would-never-pay
attention to my prose

Shakespeare's
before-my-years
I prefer things a bit more modern

Nikki Giovani
and
Maya Angelou

are

foreign to me like Armani,
or Phil Donahue

Plath?
Please!

Dickinson?
Not listening.

Robert Frost's
imagery is a lost
cost
when I imitate...

I am no Poe
O woe,
more like
woah!

I am none of these,
I am just a simple girl,
with a simple song,
in her
heart.