maybe

maybe
because my words sounded ugly
because the seasons crackled crumbled
because the locks were changed
because the shelves rearranged
because the adverbs fucked the adjectives
because the semicolon stood alone
because the clever was in costume
because the articulate were slapped in the face
because the before was annoying
because the after was terrible
because I was here sooner
and I was here later
maybe,
yeah, because,
uh,
maybe I don't get to be a poet anymore