The poem expresses uncertainty about their ability to write poetry. While others say a poem can be written about anything, the author doubts this. They feel inexperienced with poetry terms and forms. The author questions if they could write poems about everyday objects and scenes without proper training in the art of poetry.

1. a poetry anthology Riq Lert

2. where i’m from you ask where i’m from i come from a time where either there’s no such thing as spare time or everything's spare time i come from a time when i was the car now i’m riq i come from a time where i swing to stay afloat now i point i am me but every day’s new and i am made of every other me i’ve ever been. if you want to know where i’m from look how i got from then to now there to here you’ll know

3. he's coming the knives are exposed two lasers look me in the eye a bouncing ball of death comes my way two rows of spikes see me the creature is a lion, a jaguar inside outside its a cat phil has come to play phil

4. you can write a poem about anything you tell me that i can write a poem about anything wrong you think i could write a poem about a rusty, ragged, rickety old bike who has no owner or home wrong you think i could write a poem about that book over there just chillin’ on the shelf ready to pounce on the innocent passerby coercing them to read wrong you think i could write a poem about little kids running around together laughing, smiling laughing wrong i don’t know anything about poetry i couldn’t tell you what a stanza was if you asked no-one ever told me what a metaphor was and this poem doesn’t even rhyme if you think i can write a poem about anything you are wrong