I Don‘t Like Poetry

by - septiembre 09, 2026

 

Kurt Schwitters, "Wie Es Euch Gefällt (As You Like It)" (1946)

 

 

I don’t like similes.
Every time I try to think of one
my brain feels like a vast, empty desert;
my eyes feel like raisins floating in an ocean;
my fingers feel like sweaty sausages.
 
I don’t like metaphors.
Whenever I attempt them
a hammer starts beating in my chest;
lava starts bubbling in my veins;
zombies have a fight in my stomach.
 
I don’t like alliteration.
We learnt about it in school
but it’s seriously, stupendously silly;
definitely drastically difficult;
terribly, troublingly tricky.
 
I don’t like onomatopoeia.
I wish I could blow it up
with a ZAP! and a BANG! and a CRASH!;
a BOOM! and a CLANG! and a POW!;
a CLASH! and a BAM! and a THUD!
 
And I don’t like repetition
I don’t like repetition
I don’t like repetition...
 
 
 
 
 
Joshua Seigal. I Don't Like Poetry. Chicago: Poetry Foundation.

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