Life Is Fiction

Life Is Fiction

Poetry is fiction

life is real

poets are real

instruments of fiction

fiction is real, in reality

and otherwise

true, real

fiction is real and

poetry is real

as far as made by

poets or

machines made by poets

in any case

true life is poetry

thus

fiction.

© 2017, José Coelho

Will You Have Some Poetry?

Why is poetry

so important?

It's not

that one dies of it's shortage

it's just that

one

will die sooner

Poetry books, school, mom and dad

should make this clear

Poets, know that all the time;

that's why they

drink

smoke

take dope

among other private techniques

because, originality has a short

life span

and these guys

they need it so bad

they even call it

a muse

In my case, I bravely

keep the addiction up to a minimum:

avoiding poetic moments

reading technical books

or comics – but that's not poetry -

and most coercive

watching TV

What about you?

© José Coelho, 2015

If I Had My Life

if I had my life

to live over again

would I remember the one

of present days

would I want to

change what I in blindness

ignore

more than I've

willed to amend within the course

of my faulty ways

would I dare to

rescue a drop of iron blood

to save my fettered soul

and let me live

again

© 2014, JC

Staying at Camp

While staying at camp
He dreamed a mistaken life
Now he can't change it.