I Used to Be a Samurai

I used to be a Samurai. I did, I swear it’s true.

I had a blade of folded steel and I could run you through

as clean as antiseptic glass and quicker than you’d know it.

I used to be a warrior, before I was a poet.

I used to be a Samurai back then before I knew

that penmanship was mightier than running people through.

For words can cut much deeper than the finest folded blade

and the kills are so much cleaner in the poems that I made!