True poets die <br />ugly deaths <br />They get emphysema <br />from too many cigarettes <br />Their livers fail <br />from whiskey and gin <br />They open ovens <br />and stick their heads in <br />Even worse <br />some just wait eighty years <br />for their hearts to stop <br />and their bodies to rot<br /><br />Geoffrey Sterkel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/true-poets-3/
