Paul does not like poetry.
Paul does not like other people’s poetry.
Paul does not like some people’s poetry.
Paul does not like incoherent rambling poems.
Paul does not like thinly stretched rhyming poems.
Paul does not like overly green nature poems with yarrow.
Paul does not like putting green poems.
Paul does not like new mother changing soiled diapers poems.
Paul does not like apple pie poems
unless the poet provides slices of apple pie to all attendants.
Paul does not like Spanish grandmother
making tortillas by hand poems.
Paul liked those poem categories the first twenty times
he heard them, but has grown weary of them
over the poetry slam seasons.
Paul likes hot meals better than poems about hot meals.
Paul likes sex better than poems about sex.
Paul likes walking in nature better than hearing nature poems.
Paul likes playing baseball better than hearing
Mighty Casey at the Bat or Tinkers to Evers to Chance.
Paul supports his independent book shop
by purchasing copious amounts of small press
and university press poetry books.
Paul reads each poetry book once
then places them in a sidewalk poetry edition little library box.
Paul keeps one out of every one hundred
poetry books he purchases to collect dust on a bookshelf.
Paul has become his own get off my lawn poem
when it comes to poetry.
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