Backbone
i take literary license
and claim the freedom!
y’all,
after so many years
of teaching
the technicalities
of grammar
i’m more drawn
to writers
with errant styles
quirky personalities
ways with words
than the world’s libraries
of gray flannel suit writers
o
r s
d p
e b i
r o n
e o e
d k s
without a backbone
give me the rule breakers!
and
more critically
let me be one!