Here's a Poem
Here's a poem that has not
been revised or rewritten
or read aloud or cut
or extended or given to a lover.
Here's a poem that
has no code word, no
name for something else,
no intended meaning,
no axe to grind.
Here's a poem inconsequential
as a thumbtack.
Give me a penny for it
and you've overpaid.
Lose it and it's still there
for all it was worth.
Here's a poem less than
twenty lines.
Defend it.
