do past poets
ever view todays’
as cheaters?

“i never had rhyming dictionaries
back in my day…”

“the whole of human knowledge
at your fingertips
and this drivel
is what you come up with???”

good thing
i don’t believe in an afterlife

otherwise
i’d be worried
about generations of past poets behind me
judging my work
instead of simply all of humanity
from now going forward…