precis sans thesis

So, I want to write a poem that starts
"I'm late to the hate parade as usual"
and then it's like, the guy (the speaker)
is always coming too late to the hate
bandwagon - by the time he starts using
the insulting buzzwords they've all been
demonized, dropped en masse - he looks
like a tool! "Why" he wonders "can't
I get on board in time, back in the glory
days of a given hate, during the free
and easy acceptance phase?"
and then it would make some point.

Thing is, this
would be a pretty minor poem. A gem!
Maybe, but nothing to hang your hat on. Who
hangs their hat on a gem, arguably? Weird gem -
and that's just what I'd be shooting for. A weird
gem.

But the unpleasantness of the subject matter
- hate - that's a hard dodge to pull off
without people getting offended like
they will anyway, despite it's pretty clear
whatever. Is the risk worth it for a weird gem?

I guess in the end these are the kinds of question
we'll all have to measure ourselves by. Do you
sacrifice your principles and chicken out? Or forge
ahead boldly on a venture of dubious value because
you don't know how to, and finding out seems
like half the whole point?

Anyway, just a little insight/update
on the creative process,
unspooling apace