Consumer Advisory Poem by Alan Milner

Consumer Advisory



These poems really
might not really be about
what you thought they were
but that is not guaranteed:
Read further at your own risk.
There are no typpographical
or grammatical errors
in this manuscript.
Every line is exactly
as it was supposed to be
but since I never reread
anything I have written
please take this advisory with
some of that pink Himalayan salt
you once used to love to sprinkle about.*
*Small Print Disclaimer:
Some of these poems were actually written by other people
who made the mistake of sending them to me
since I am known to be a notorious thief.
I didn't keep track of which poems were stolen,
so if you see something here that you think you wrote,
I will gladly footnote the poem to that effect
in the next edition.

PS:
This is the last edition so,
if I did steal something from you,
you are shit out of luck.
Don't bother trying to sue me
because I'm probably already dead.

PPS:
This was also the First Edition.
It might actually be worth something someday.
Please do not bend, fold, spindle or mutilate

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I will have no truck with hashtags, nor will I select a genre. This is my first attempt to publish a poem here and I am disappointed to find that you cannot properly format or embellish poems here. Example: The small print disclaimer stanza was supposed to be in a smaller font.
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