Worth Knowing

 I want you to know something rather worth knowing:

this is the second line of a stupid poem

that’s intent on describing itself line by line.

How is it going? It’s basically fine

but what is it for?  What does it say?

It tells you that now you’ve read almost halfway

but is that a fact that is really worth knowing?

Oh, here we are now, halfway through the poem

and how are things now, going into line nine

of this pointedly juvenile literary crime?

Oh wait, line ten’s awful! It just didn’t scan!

I think I should stop this as soon as I can.

Ah, here comes the end of this ludicrous poem.

Just read this last line then you can get going.