#Poetry by Scott Wozniak - Happy to be a Feral Creature from Crumbling Utopian Pipedream

HAPPY TO BE A FERAL CREATURE
POETRY BY SCOTT WOZNIAK
FROM CRUMBLING UTOPIAN PIPEDREAM

The man
next to me
was drinking
chardonnay
while talking
loudly
about his MFA 
and how he taught
English Lit
at the local
university.
 
Inevitably,
we started talking
literature
from opposite sides
of the fence.
 
As we argued
about poetry
he exclaimed,
“Any poet
worth his salt
MUST read Kafka!”
 
I confessed,
I myself,
am a poet
who has never
read Kafka.
 
He scoffed
and sipped his drink.
 
I took a shot
of Jim Beam,
looked him
in the eye,
and said,
“Fuck Kafka,
any poet
worth
a shit                                                                                                                                                           
MUST have,
at one time,
lost everything
they hold dear,
and had to fight  
for sanity.”
 
Puzzled,
he stared at me
with the eyes
of an animal
who’d never
seen the jungle.

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