National Bad Poetry Day

Write bad poetry, beloved. 

Write it for its own sake-

to hear the words that you have been 

screaming silently 

out loud: 

finally released 

into the wild white. 

Worry not about meter, 

leave your rhymes unschemed. 

Pour yourself, 

unpolished and uncouth, 

onto the paper. 

Sprinkle it with your tears, 

smudge it in your coffee's condensation.
Write bad poetry, beloved, 

for I will treasure what you write. 

Despite it all,

all the words are yours.