”He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of the page is no guarantee. Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation. He hated to argue about the techniques of verse. The poem is a dirty, bloody, burning thing that has to be grabbed first with bare hands. Once the fire celebrated Light, the dirt Humility, the blood Sacrifice. Now the poets are professional fire-eaters, freelancing at any carnival. The fire goes down easily and honours no one in particular.”
-Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game
Poets don’t become a working (Occupation) poet, it doesn’t work that way to become one.
Poetry as Leonard Cohen defines it in his own terms, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
We are poets and write poems because we are in the human race.
The human race and this world are filled with confusing things, problems, and conflicts.
The only weapon of the poet is his pen and paper to fight those things.
Mark Tacastacas 
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