Everybody Hates Portland’s Cigarette Bro-Poet

A tweet from a Portland Twitter account has gone viral after exposing Instagram posts from a local poet named Collin Yost.

this guy is a PUBLISHED author pic.twitter.com/aqxif0N9Xk
— izzy (@badplantmom) August 28, 2017

The poet frequently posts photos of Courier New poems next to packs of cigarettes. One of his poems simply reads:

Yost currently has a book for sale at Powell's titled A Shot of Whiskey and a Kiss You'll Regret in the Morning, where Twitter user Izzy (@badplantmom) found his book in the small press section, prompting her to craft a Tweet of three of Yosts' poems and the caption: "This guy is a PUBLISHED poet." The Tweet now has more than 2,000 retweets and 8,000 likes, because the internet is a very mean place.

Yost could not be reached in time for comment.

Here are a few of the most popular comments, many of which include readers' own mock Yost poems.

this is the shit i'd write to make fun of shitty white boy poets
— dante🌹 🔜 pax (@videodante) August 28, 2017

Lol these are so easy pic.twitter.com/j4mTNqBCTV
— Mark Scialabba (@MarcusGroovy) August 29, 2017

this is so bad???? like, we get it collin, you use the rent money your parents give you to buy cocaine 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/4rlmefEIWA
— the infamous cammy h (@boygeoisie) August 29, 2017