Skills-based Analysis
I arrived home,
having just finished
discussing line breaks with those
whom despise enjambment.
On my front stoop,
a little boy sat
and asked to pet
my bald head.
He started to cry
and said to me:
“What do you know of poetry?
Are you a certified poemologist?”
I had no answer.
”You have bad meter
and avoid objective correlatives,”
he continued.
I looked at him
and asked: “What if
I was the young man
and you the bald one?”
The little boy replied,
“I would move to Bogotá
and you –
you would always be late to school.”