a sincere question that will nevertheless reveal my stupidity to the Universe

whut is up
with poems--

that look like this

all over the page

why do the lines look all separate-y like that?

what is the purpose of the separate-y lines?

i have a hard time reading

poems that look

like this--

this--(they usually have lots of hyphens)------

or like this first because they look too smart for me

and second because they are just---

fucking hard to read

and third because i distrust them

and i don't understand line breaks anyway

kathy i know you know