I Have No Time for Poems Now - I’m Beat

I Have No Time for Poems Now – I’m Beat

I have no time for poems now – I’m beat!

I’m much too busy with my daily life.

I sleep, I wake, I drive, I work, I meet

My sweetheart now and then amid the strife

When I (and she, of course) can find the time.

There simply is no time for poetry

Or books, or art, or songs – no time for mimes

Or acrobats! My life is poem free.

I cannot tell you when I last sat down

And read some verse, unless you want to count

Those sentimental jingles that are found

On drugstore greeting cards. At night I mount

The stairs, and on my rumpled bed I fall,

And never think of poetry at all.

November 21, 1992