Oh No, Have I Created Accidental Clickbait?
a poem, and a moist one, at that
Does accidentally creating clickbait
give you the sweats?
Make your heart race, and your mouth go dry?
While some rely on clickbait to sell their content
why does this concept
bring beads of moisture
to the brow above my left eye?
If we dig deeper
it’s because clickbait
is the epitome of overpromoting
and underdelivering;
and my imposter syndrome
constantly strives for the opposite ratio
of underpromoting and overdelivering,
JUST in case I’m missing some deeper point
and the piece is not as good as I thought it is
as I sent out my draft in the world.
Between the clickbait
of screaming too loudly in the title
and providing little to chew on in the body
and a sense of imposter syndrome
of muting the title
so that no one actually gets to taste
the gems of your piece
