Am I a praise poet or a blame poet?
Today I am a blame poet.
O Death, face it, existence
doesn’t like you.
You can’t sing. You can’t paint.
You can’t play drums. You can’t skateboard.
You won’t even ride a bicycle.
You are harbinger of nothing.
All you like to do is hinder and disturb.
Hinder and disturb.
I think you think it’s cool.
It’s not. (And you smell funny.)
It’s getting annoying.
You’re, like, so cheerless.
I don’t care what you think,
I’m trying out for the school play.
Grade levels
7-9 / Sec. 1-3
10-12 / Sec. 4 & 5 / CEGEP 1
Tags
Common Poetic Terms and Forms
Contest Criteria
Death is actually like, so annoying and can't even skateboard.
Bibliographical info
Jason Camlot, "Dear Death," from What the World Said. Mansfield Press, 2013. Copyright © Jason Camlot 2013. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.