Hello Friends,
It's important to remember you can write a poem about anything. In that spirit, today's poem is "Ode to the Pubic Hair Stuck in My Throat" by Hieu Minh Nguyen, a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer based out of Minneapolis.
Poetry's origins are in spoken communication — we invented meter and rhyme to make long stories easier to memorize and recite. So don't let anyone tell you that spoken word is any less "poetry" than the Ivory Tower variety.
As a spoken word piece, today's poem may be viewed on YouTube here.
Enjoy.
Ellen