Someday-Professors (Is This Jealous?)

Published poems are written by someday-professors
for someday-professors.
Poets do not get published
because publishers don't know what is good
and know only what they like,
which happens to sell
to someday-professors who pick apart each word
and tell other someday-professors
what the writers are trying to say.
The poets are stumbling hobos,
well-oiled vagrants,
ramblers with no one to talk to.
Their words are missed.
They are crazy. They are not meant
for poetry.
Someday-professors and publishers and
someday-publishers hold a convention
to discuss, to share, to learn
what it means to be a poet
and you will not see a poet there.
He doesn't fit in,
just like his words are too earnest
and truthful,
honest and forthright
to get into someday-professors' publications.