"How to Write a Poem"

 

First I gotta smoke a joint

to direct me to the starting point

 

If I need to write a poem

then I need to be alone

preferably in my own home

so my thoughts can feel free to roam

and noone cares how loud I moan

 

Then I need some thing with ink

to empty out the thoughts I think

and I also might want a drink

in case I think the poem stink

 

But first I gotta smoke a joint

to direct me to the starting point

 

And I gotta have some strong emotion

my brain exploding with commotion

and usually a desperate notion

that I'd like to jump into the ocean

 

And if I'm feeling really bad

and also quite profoundly sad

and real close to raging mad

then to my poem it will only add

 

But first I gotta smoke a joint

to direct me to the starting point

 

Then I gotta find some rhymnes

the truth in words they always find

makes the vereses ring like chimes

and I also have a funner time

 

But if my thoughts start to wwander

or a tough rhymne tries to put me under

when about myself I start to wonder

wishing I was way out yonder

 

Then I need to smoke a joint

to remind me of the starting point

 

And if i feel I'm at the end

I'll read the poem once again

remind myself of perfect Zen

and nothing will I try to mend

 

Once I've read it once or twice

a drawing can be awful nice

perhaps a pair of friendly mice

or snake eyes on a pair of dice

 

Then I'll hope that I can sleep

that my poem might be really deep

that rhyming isn't sorta cheap

that my head will soon be filled with sheep

 

And then I'll finish off the joint

to remind me of the starting point