Genius

I know the mind plays tricks

Especially when I’m stuck, working an unmitigated fix

A thousand first lines and innovative ideas

Given a voice, cause excitement in my ears

Genius in us all resides

I am assured, yet still in me, coy, it hides

The ramblings to biased readers read aloud

Makes mockery of my efforts, makes me falsely proud

And when read in isolation in subsequent lonely days

The piece revisited displays

Crass, inelegant style-free verse

I shrug and ponder if my genius can get any worse.