Poetry: Help! I'm Trapped in a Poem and I Can't Get Out!

Help! I’m Trapped in a Poem and I Can’t Get Out!

Who am I? Where am I?

Why am I- oh

Was that a line break?

I think it was

And here’s another

Wow, that’s interesting

            And here’s an indent!

                        Abstract

                                    Fancy

I like it!

Too bad there’s no rhyme scheme

            Or meter

            Or cohesion

            I mean,

                        It’s hardly Shakespeare

But it’s okay, I guess

            Maybe

Oh, hello! Who are you?

Why do you have an eraser?

Ouch! That tic

(This poem has been discontinued.)

Author Notes: I decided to get a little meta with this one. I wondered, what happened if a poem became self-aware? What would would it think of its creator, the poet? How would a creator respond to an unintentionally sentient poem? All of these thoughts went into this, but really, I just thought it was funny.