"What's the Point of Poetry?" by Mr. Matthew Norris

“What’s the point of poetry?

It’s - seriously - so dumb,

- like -

what are they even saying

with these random-

ass words?

Isn’t this class supposed to help

me read and write good?”

Questions like detritus

settling on the ocean

depths.

His tsunami sigh fills the room,

blowing the pen

and paper from the desk,

settling on the floor.

His eyes settling

on the phone’s glow-

an anglerfish waiting in the trench.