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I swear.
Poetry people think they're better than you because their ironic, vintage T-shirt was purchased at a boutique from a girl with facial piercings instead of maturing into irony in the back of your closet like a fungus.
A murder of poets hangs out in the poetry section of Barnes and Noble every Saturday night, peeking over the top of the William Carlos Williams they're not reading to see if that cute girl in the ironic vintage T-shirt with her midriff exposed is looking at them.
Mothers and fathers of poets still pay their car insurance premiums even as they approach their 27th birthdays.
Poets tell themselves that their music is edgy and fresh because they only pay to hear bands without record deals, foursomes with fantastic bad hair and ironic T-shirts depicting bands that have, ironically, achieved mainstream success.
There is a terrible secret involving a Medieval Fair lurking in the closets of every poet, behind the ironic T-shirts, even behind the ironic but unseasonable hoodies.
Videogames and TV are cooler than poetry.
Rock and Roll music is cooler than poetry.
Your mom is cooler than poetry.
Poetry is stupid and lame.
My name is Sucker MC and I'm a poet.