The sad thing about poetry is that it is both one the easiest and most difficult method of expression around. I say easy because any fool can plunk something down, stick it on their page, and call it poetry. I say difficult because the event that you find good poetry on a webpage is rare, unless it's a published poem by someone who's dead or otherwise established.

Unfortunately, since I'm to be senior editor of the lit mag next year, I have to sit down and write some goddamn poetry, and it has to not suck, or I'll be in trouble with Mama G. Writing poetry is, as I've said, very easy. Writing poetry that doesn't suck is hard, unless you've got the poetry groove going on. Which few people do, including myself. But I've got to try, anyway, because I really want to do this. Even if most of my poems are still just sentences with funny line breaks.