Poetry in the Outback

I've been told there is a canon

a set of rules you say

but in this year of 2015

so many have gone away

Forget about the meter

to hell with punctuation

for in this land of poetry

there is a brand new nation

There are those who don't want this to change

and for purity they do strive

please go on stick to canon

and keep your craft alive

But no two people are the same

we all have different tastes

and when a reader hates all one writes

it's his own time he wastes

Not everyone is out there

looking for that classic write

you see today it's like the outback

there are no rules, just right