That my characters lack
Fine detail
Bodies to drool over
Gripping dialogue
Humor
Class
Style
That the climax
Doesn't have the violence needed
To reach
A modern world
To resonate with
The avid reader
Devourer of books
Ask me why
When all the world's genres lay before me
I choose one that holds
So little promise
With hard walls around it
Hard rules
Or why I break the rules
Or turn them on their heads
Tell me the rule breaking
Pisses you off
Tell me I bore you
Tell me nothing works
I'll agree
But I didn't write it for you
I wrote it for the single set of eyes
Who needs the book
Who'll see my soul inside it
And know me better
And know themselves better
The way that I know my own soul
Within it
Better
Because I have it written.
