Ars Poetica Kenyatta Rogers After Amiri Baraka and Stefania Gomez Poems are bullshit unless they are broken  like a horse, like a dog kicked in the ribs,  Like your favorite toy that’s missing an arm. Love can make you feel used. I want the poem that limps back to me. Poems should hurt like love, like ice water on your teeth like a massage to smooth out a cramped muscle. Give me the poem that’s like leather. Give me the poem that smells like gasoline. I want a poem that is a warning, a poem that makes me check to see if I [...]