“The Ha-ha: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)”

“March 2009.
That’s when I added this book to my to-read list on Goodreads. Before today, it was the oldest thing on my Goodreads to-read list. Well, no more!

And you fuckers thought all I could read was comics. Well, NOW who’s stupid? NOW who needs pictures with the words?

This is poetry, okay? Po-ems. Lyrical shit. And I read it.

You must be feeling pretty bad about yourself right about now. I don’t blame you. I’d feel like shit too if I just got dunked on this hard by someone on Goodreads, someone I thought was a dope, and now has forced me to say, “Perhaps I am the dope.”

Yes, perhaps. Perhaps you are.”