Please Say Goodbye / Project Poem-A-Day: Day 3
Please Say Goodbye
I’m not impressed with your list of strengths.
Your best qualities. The skills and talents
in which you excel,
because I think you’re lying.
I have never known what separates me
from everyone else, why anyone should hire /
date / admire me.
But I am well-acquainted with my weaknesses;
I recite them to fall asleep.
Melodramatic. Craves yet fears intimacy.
Responds to emotions with anger and resentment.
Lacks self-awareness; avoids making decisions.
Forms strong opinions without strong reasons.
Poetry is poorly-crafted; the poet’s preferred voice
takes on a confessional quality
at the expense of good writing.