A Disdain of Poetry - Part of a Play

"To write a poem
is to hide from your fears.
Sure, your words are flowered and fluffed with
silly similes
and
melodic metaphors...
But for what?
Why not write out your thoughts in a plain, full-lined manner?
(As any fair man might do.)
Because you are afraid!
You hide behind your
rhyming rhetoric
and
ambiguous alliteration
because you fear that they will disagree!
You make them strip away your
babbling bark
so that only your most dedicated and trustworthy readers
will know your secrets!
Well, hear me now,
and hear me well,
I disdain your methods
and spit on your "pieces of art"
and until the day the grim reaper takes me like a stand of wheat
I will always hate poetry."